linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nfs lockd reclaimer: Convert to kthread API

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Message-Id: <1176999710.6663.12.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org>
Date:	Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:21:50 -0400
From:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
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, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfs lockd reclaimer: Convert to kthread API

On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 01:58 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> 
> Start the reclaimer thread using kthread_run instead
> of a combination of kernel_thread and daemonize.
> The small amount of signal handling code is also removed
> as it makes no sense and is a maintenance problem to handle
> signals in kernel threads.

Vetoed. Removing stuff just because it doesn't make sense to you is not
acceptable.

Signal handling in reclaimer threads is there in order to allow
administrators to deal with the case where the server never comes up
again.

Trond

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