Re: [PATCH/RFC] sunrpc: constant-time code to wake idle thread

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> 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






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