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From: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nbd.c:sock_xmit: cleanup signal related code
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:36:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <467198C8.1040107@steeleye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070614172243.GA2446@tv-sign.ru>

Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> sock_xmit() re-implements sigprocmask() and dequeue_signal_lock().

Yeah, that code was written before those existed. Thanks for the clean up.

> Note: I can't understand this dequeue_signal(), it can dequeue SIGKILL
> for the user-space task doing nbd_ioctl() ?

So we can interrupt an nbd transmission without waiting for a TCP 
timeout (when we know the network is down).

> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>

Patch looks good to me.

--
Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-14 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-14 17:22 [PATCH] nbd.c:sock_xmit: cleanup signal related code Oleg Nesterov
2007-06-14 19:36 ` Paul Clements [this message]
2007-06-14 20:11   ` Oleg Nesterov

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