From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757779AbYEMF35 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 01:29:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754833AbYEMF3s (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 01:29:48 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:57878 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754718AbYEMF3r (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 01:29:47 -0400 Message-ID: <48292742.8090409@sgi.com> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 15:29:38 +1000 From: Donald Douwsma User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Georgi Chorbadzhiyski CC: xfs@oss.sgi.com, jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, cluster-devel@redhat.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Unneeded kernel threads (xfs, jfs, gfs2) References: <4828CAC6.3090402@unixsol.org> In-Reply-To: <4828CAC6.3090402@unixsol.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Georgi Chorbadzhiyski wrote: > Hi guys, I know that not all kernel thread users are converted to > start only when needed but the following is little annoying specially > when I'm not even using jfs, xfs and gfs2. > > Look at the ps output from a standard distro 2.6.24.5 kernel after a > fresh boot: ... > > Kernel config can be found here: > http://mirrors.unixsol.org/slackware/slackware-12.1/kernels/hugesmp.s/config > Your distro is building all of these modules into the kernel. CONFIG_XFS_FS=y CONFIG_JFS_FS=y CONFIG_GFS2_FS=y This isnt exactly standard practice, normally they'd be set to =m and only used if required to mount a filesystem. You may want to ask the slackware people why they chose to do this for their hugexxx.s kernels. Don