From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, io-uring <io-uring@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Don't show PF_IO_WORKER in /proc/<pid>/task/
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 21:44:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210325204430.GE28349@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wgUcVeaKhtBgJO3TfE69miJq-krtL8r_Wf_=LBTJw6WSg@mail.gmail.com>
On 03/25, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> The whole "signals are very special for IO threads" thing has caused
> so many problems, that maybe the solution is simply to _not_ make them
> special?
Or may be IO threads should not abuse CLONE_THREAD?
Why does create_io_thread() abuse CLONE_THREAD ?
One reason (I think) is that this implies SIGKILL when the process exits/execs,
anything else?
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-25 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-25 16:43 [PATCH 0/2] Don't show PF_IO_WORKER in /proc/<pid>/task/ Jens Axboe
2021-03-25 16:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] kernel: don't include PF_IO_WORKERs as part of same_thread_group() Jens Axboe
2021-03-25 16:43 ` [PATCH 2/2] proc: don't show PF_IO_WORKER threads as threads in /proc/<pid>/task/ Jens Axboe
2021-03-29 1:57 ` [proc] 43b2a76b1a: will-it-scale.per_process_ops -11.3% regression kernel test robot
2021-03-25 19:33 ` [PATCH 0/2] Don't show PF_IO_WORKER in /proc/<pid>/task/ Eric W. Biederman
2021-03-25 19:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-03-25 19:40 ` Jens Axboe
2021-03-25 19:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-03-25 19:46 ` Jens Axboe
2021-03-25 20:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-03-25 20:40 ` Oleg Nesterov
2021-03-25 20:43 ` Jens Axboe
2021-03-25 20:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-03-25 20:42 ` Jens Axboe
2021-03-25 20:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-03-25 20:40 ` Jens Axboe
2021-03-25 21:44 ` Jens Axboe
2021-03-25 21:57 ` Stefan Metzmacher
2021-03-26 0:11 ` Jens Axboe
2021-03-26 11:59 ` Stefan Metzmacher
2021-04-01 14:40 ` Stefan Metzmacher
2021-03-25 22:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-03-26 0:08 ` Jens Axboe
2021-03-25 20:43 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-03-25 21:50 ` Jens Axboe
2021-03-25 20:44 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2021-03-25 20:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-03-25 21:20 ` Stefan Metzmacher
2021-03-25 21:48 ` Stefan Metzmacher
2021-03-25 19:40 ` Jens Axboe
2021-03-25 20:32 ` Oleg Nesterov
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