netdev - Re: [PATCH] RFC: have tcp_recvmsg() check kthread_should_stop() and treat it as if it were signalled

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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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