From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757316AbYEMPbR (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 11:31:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755382AbYEMPbF (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 11:31:05 -0400 Received: from sandeen.net ([209.173.210.139]:29364 "EHLO sandeen.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756058AbYEMPbE (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 11:31:04 -0400 Message-ID: <4829B435.10200@sandeen.net> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 10:31:01 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: David Chinner , Georgi Chorbadzhiyski , cluster-devel@redhat.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List , jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, Donald Douwsma , xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: [Jfs-discussion] Unneeded kernel threads (xfs, jfs, gfs2) References: <4828CAC6.3090402@unixsol.org> <48292742.8090409@sgi.com> <482951C3.60600@unixsol.org> <20080513090311.GZ155679365@sgi.com> <20080513092156.GA26736@infradead.org> <20080513092851.GA19879@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20080513092851.GA19879@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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