Re: [PATCH V5 07/10] io_uring: switch to kernel_worker

[Jens Axboe]

On 11/22/21 3:02 AM, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 11:17:11AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 11/21/21 10:49 AM, Mike Christie wrote:
>>> Convert io_uring and io-wq to use kernel_worker.
>>
>> I don't like the kernel_worker name, that implies it's always giving you
>> a kernel thread or kthread. That's not the io_uring use case, it's
>> really just a thread off the original task that just happens to never
>> exit to userspace.
>>
>> Can we do a better name? At least io_thread doesn't imply that.
> 
> Yeah, I had thought about that as well and at first had kernel_uworker()
> locally but wasn't convinced. Maybe we should just make it
> create_user_worker()?

That's better, or maybe even create_user_inkernel_thread() or something?
Pretty long, though... I'd be fine with create_user_worker().

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Jens Axboe