linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nbd.c:sock_xmit: cleanup signal related code

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Date:	Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:36:40 -0400
From:	Paul Clements <paul.clements@...eleye.com>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nbd.c:sock_xmit: cleanup signal related code

Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> sock_xmit() re-implements sigprocmask() and dequeue_signal_lock().

Yeah, that code was written before those existed. Thanks for the clean up.

> Note: I can't understand this dequeue_signal(), it can dequeue SIGKILL
> for the user-space task doing nbd_ioctl() ?

So we can interrupt an nbd transmission without waiting for a TCP 
timeout (when we know the network is down).

> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>

Patch looks good to me.

--
Paul
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