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From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kthread: convert stop_machine into a kthread
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 22:04:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060616030432.GA18037@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1150419895.10290.9.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Quoting Rusty Russell (rusty@rustcorp.com.au):
> On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 08:20 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > Update stop_machine.c to spawn stop_machine as kthreads rather
> > than the deprecated kernel_threads.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
> 
> kthread does a lot of stuff we don't need, and stop_machine is fairly
> special, low-level interface.
> 
> Seems like change for change's sake, to me, *and* it added more code
> than it removed.

So if kernel_thread is really going to be removed, how else should this
be done?  Just clone?

-serge

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-16  3:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <17553.56625.612931.136018@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
2006-06-16  1:04 ` Rusty Russell
2006-06-16  3:04   ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
2006-06-16  3:54     ` Paul Mackerras
2006-06-16  4:00     ` Rusty Russell
2006-06-16 12:54       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-06-18 12:12         ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-15 14:43 Serge E. Hallyn
2006-06-20  3:14 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-20  3:20   ` Erik Ohrnberger
2006-06-20  8:27   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-06-20  8:40     ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-20 16:27       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-06-20 22:42         ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-21  0:52           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-06-21  1:18             ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-21  1:44               ` Serge E. Hallyn

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