From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754593AbYEMJ3F (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 05:29:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750735AbYEMJ2x (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 05:28:53 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:40368 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750749AbYEMJ2w (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 05:28:52 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 05:28:51 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: David Chinner Cc: Georgi Chorbadzhiyski , cluster-devel@redhat.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List , jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, Donald Douwsma , xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: [Jfs-discussion] Unneeded kernel threads (xfs, jfs, gfs2) Message-ID: <20080513092851.GA19879@infradead.org> References: <4828CAC6.3090402@unixsol.org> <48292742.8090409@sgi.com> <482951C3.60600@unixsol.org> <20080513090311.GZ155679365@sgi.com> <20080513092156.GA26736@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080513092156.GA26736@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 05:21:56AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Well, we could refcount the number of active xfs instances and > start/stop the global threads based on that. Not really worth my > time IHMO, but if someone comes up with a clean enough patch it should > go in. Actually doing it in the VFS might be even better. Add ->init and ->exit methods to struct file_system_type and then the filesystems can move most of module_init/exit into the new methods.