Re: [PATCH] NFS: state manager thread must stay running.

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Hello, Neil.

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 02:08:31PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> There are two interesting requirements for the manager thread:
> 1/ It must allow SIGKILL, which can abort NFS transactions to
>    a dead server.
> 2/ It may continue running after the filesystem is unmounted,
>    until the server recovers or the thread is SIGKILLed

Out of curiosity, why is SIGKILL handling necessary at all?  Can't nfs
just keep the manager running while any mount is active?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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