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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2009-06-17 16:27:43 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-06-18 13:03:53 -0700
commitcdd140bdd6c7bc6395f08877a73c39941501af93 (patch)
tree48664b2790fb2b5152bd67bf70fb3405e1ef6e8b /README
parente1eb1ebcca871673c76caf63335c4237680040f1 (diff)
kthreads: simplify the startup synchronization
We use two completions two create the kernel thread, this is a bit ugly. kthread() wakes up create_kthread() via ->started, then create_kthread() wakes up the caller kthread_create() via ->done. But kthread() does not need to wait for kthread(), it can just return. Instead kthread() itself can wake up the caller of kthread_create(). Kill kthread_create_info->started, ->done is enough. This improves the scalability a bit and sijmplifies the code. The only problem if kernel_thread() fails, in that case create_kthread() must do complete(&create->done). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@openvz.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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