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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 17:16:03 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 06:01:48PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> the reaping of the thread is thus not done by the parent (or init), but by
> per-CPU [kwaitd] kernel threads. The exiting thread queues itself always
> to the CPU-local kwaitd queue, to maintain locality of reference and cheap
> switching to kwaitd.

Is there a reason you don't use kevent for this?  Especially when going to
the per-CPU kevent as part of aio?