Hello, On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 12:42:37PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote: > You want to point me at the relevant workqueue code? I'd really like to > see what you did there, it's entirely possible you're aware of some > issue I'm not but if not I'd like to take a stab at it. I was mistaken. The issue was that adding @gfp_flags to kthread_create() wasn't trivial involving updates to arch callbacks, so the timer was added to side-step the issue. So, yeah, if it can be made to work w/o timer, I think that would be better. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bcache" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html