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Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 09:17:54 -0500 From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com> To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> Cc: linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, nfsv4@...ux-nfs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] NLM: Add lockd reference counting and clean up lockd startup and shutdown On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 14:07:47 +0000 Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote: > > + mutex_lock(&nlmsvc_mutex); > > + while (atomic_read(&nlmsvc_ref) != 0) { > > might be better to do the refcounting outside the thread and use the > kthread api, which is something we still need to do for lockd anyway. > Currently sending a SIGKILL to lockd tells it to drop all of its locks without exiting. If we change lockd to use kthreads, will we have to change that to use a different mechanism? -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com> -- 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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