> On Jul 10, 2023, at 6:18 PM, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > What do you think of removing the ability to stop an nfsd thread by > sending it a signal. Note that this doesn't apply to lockd or to nfsv4 > callback threads. And nfs-utils never relies on this. > I'm keen. It would make this patch a lot simpler. I agree the code base would be cleaner for it. But I'm the new kid. I'm not really sure if this is part of a kernel - user space API that we mustn't alter, or whether it's something that was added but never used, or .... I can sniff around to get a better understanding. -- Chuck Lever