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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 19:05:52 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>, Robin Holt <holt@....com>, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jack Steiner <steiner@...ricas.sgi.com> Subject: Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children. On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 06:29:16PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > The support angel on my shoulder says we should just put all the kernel > > threads under a kthread subtree to shorten init's child list and minimize > > impact. > > A number are already there, of course, since they use the kthread > infrastructure to get there. As all kernel thread (1) should be converted to kthread anyway for proper containers support and general "let's get rid of a crappy API' cleanups I think that's enough. It would be nice to have SGI helping to convert more drivers over to the proper API as conversions have stalled a little bit. (1) There's a few very core kernel threads that need to stick to the low-level API, but they're too few to make any differences. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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