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

From: michael . christie
Date: Mon Nov 22 2021 - 11:48:44 EST


On 11/22/21 8:20 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 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().
>

Ok, I'll do:

create_user_worker()
start_user_worker()

since you guys agree. It will also match the PF flag naming.

I'll also add more details to the commit message you requested.