Re: [patch] kwaitd, 2.5.31-A1

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Date: Tue Aug 13 2002 - 11:16:03 EST

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On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 06:01:48PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> the reaping of the thread is thus not done by the parent (or init), but by
> per-CPU [kwaitd] kernel threads. The exiting thread queues itself always
> to the CPU-local kwaitd queue, to maintain locality of reference and cheap
> switching to kwaitd.

Is there a reason you don't use kevent for this? Especially when going to
the per-CPU kevent as part of aio?

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