On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 08:05 -0700, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Hi, > > I accidentally looked at all kthreads in existence on my system and > found I had: > > [iscsi_eh] > [bnx2i_thread/0] > [bnx2i_thread/1] > [bnx2i_thread/2] > [bnx2i_thread/3] > [bnx2i_thread/4] > [bnx2i_thread/5] > [bnx2i_thread/6] > [bnx2i_thread/7] > [bnx2i_thread/8] > [bnx2i_thread/9] > [bnx2i_thread/10] > [bnx2i_thread/11] > [bnx2i_thread/12] > [bnx2i_thread/13] > [bnx2i_thread/14] > [bnx2i_thread/15] > [bnx2i_thread/16] > [bnx2i_thread/17] > [bnx2i_thread/18] > [bnx2i_thread/19] > [bnx2i_thread/20] > [bnx2i_thread/21] > [bnx2i_thread/22] > [bnx2i_thread/23] > > This left me wondering why, because I most certainly am not using iSCSI. > I don't even know why its enabled in my .config (and it won't be long). > > Please fix this muck to not create useless threads. Hello Peter, Point noted. In the current bnx2i driver, one kthread is created per cpu core upon module init (and destroyed upon module exit). The kthreads are meant only to improve I/O performance when iSCSI is employed. Otherwise, I agree that they should not exist. Eddie > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
