linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ipv4/ipvs: Convert to kthread API

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Message-ID: <20070419090435.GB26050@verge.net.au>
Date:	Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:04:36 +0900
From:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	"<Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>, containers@...ts.osdl.org,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Wensong Zhang <wensong@...ux-vs.org>,
	Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4/ipvs: Convert to kthread API

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 01:58:57AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> 
> Modify startup of ipvs sync threads to use kthread_run
> instead of a weird combination of calling kernel_thread
> to start a fork_sync_thread whose hole purpose in life was
> to call kernel_thread again starting the actually sync thread
> which called daemonize.
> 
> To use kthread_run I had to move the name calcuation from
> sync_thread into start_sync_thread resulting in a small
> amount of code motion.
> 
> The result is simpler and more maintainable piece of code.

Thanks Eric, I'll review this and get back to you shortly.

-- 
Horms
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