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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>,
	brking@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use workqueue for call_usermodehelper
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 11:38:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040419113854.H22989@build.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1082345766.30154.13.camel@bach>; from rusty@rustcorp.com.au on Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 01:36:06PM +1000

* Rusty Russell (rusty@rustcorp.com.au) wrote:
> [ Vatsa, this should solve your NUMA+HOTPLUG_CPU deadlock too, I think ]
> 
> This uses the create_singlethread_workqueue() function presented in the
> last patch, although it could just as easily use create_workqueue().

Nice, this seems like it should fixup the problem Brian was seeing too,
and maintain return code from kernel_thread(), etc. instead of the async
option.  Brian, did you give these changes a whirl? (they're in latest
-mm tree)

thanks,
-chris
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-19 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-19  3:36 Rusty Russell
2004-04-19 18:38 ` Chris Wright [this message]
2004-04-21 13:42   ` Brian King

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