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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>,
	Georgi Chorbadzhiyski <gf@unixsol.org>,
	cluster-devel@redhat.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com>,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [Jfs-discussion] Unneeded kernel threads (xfs, jfs, gfs2)
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 10:31:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4829B435.10200@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080513092851.GA19879@infradead.org>

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 05:21:56AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> Well, we could refcount the number of active xfs instances and
>> start/stop the global threads based on that.  Not really worth my
>> time IHMO, but if someone comes up with a clean enough patch it should
>> go in.
> 
> Actually doing it in the VFS might be even better.  Add ->init and
> ->exit methods to struct file_system_type and then the filesystems can
> move most of module_init/exit into the new methods.

Hmm I like that idea! :)

-Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-13 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-12 22:55 Unneeded kernel threads (xfs, jfs, gfs2) Georgi Chorbadzhiyski
2008-05-12 23:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-13  8:36   ` Georgi Chorbadzhiyski
2008-05-14 17:22     ` Stefan Richter
2008-05-13  5:29 ` Donald Douwsma
2008-05-13  5:51   ` FD Cami
2008-05-13  8:33     ` Georgi Chorbadzhiyski
2008-05-13  8:30   ` Georgi Chorbadzhiyski
2008-05-13  9:03     ` David Chinner
2008-05-13  9:21       ` [Jfs-discussion] " Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-13  9:28         ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-13 15:31           ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2008-05-13 13:31   ` Lennart Sorensen

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