Re: kthreadd (was Re: nfsiod issues?)

Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Fri, 19 Apr 1996 09:35:08 +0100 (BST)


> An idea I had for a similar problem is kthreadd. This would be a kernel
> thread created on boot (just after kswapd), which would sit around waiting
> for requests to spawn new kernel threads. These thread's would therefore
> have no user VM.

Just use the idle threads.

Alan