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Message-Id: <E1HwpmG-0008LW-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 11:30:04 +1000
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To: jlayton@...hat.com (Jeff Layton)
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-cifs-client@...ts.samba.org,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: have tcp_recvmsg() check kthread_should_stop() and treat it as if it were signalled
Please cc networking patches to netdev@...r.kernel.org.
Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> The following patch is a first stab at removing this need. It makes it
> so that in tcp_recvmsg() we also check kthread_should_stop() at any
> point where we currently check to see if the task was signalled. If
> that returns true, then it acts as if it were signalled and returns to
> the calling function.
This just doesn't seem to fit. Why should networking care about kthreads?
Perhaps you can get kthread_stop to send a signal instead?
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