On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 04:07:58PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 17:33:40 +0200 Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > There seem to be quite some confusions on the comments, likely due to > > changes that came after them. > > > > Now since it's very non obvious why we have 3 levels of asynchronous > > code to implement usermodehelpers, it's important to comment in detail > > the reason of this layout. > > There are still a few references to keventd in there. One of them is > simply wrong: "runs as a child of keventd". The userspace code is > actually a child of the khelper thread, yes? > > I guess we should remove all kernel references to "keventd". It got > renamed to "kworker".
Right, I think I missed them because I confused khelper with keventd. In fact here they are all children of khelper, which is the singlethread workqueue tied to kmod. But I'm working on a new iteration that makes use of a global no numa workqueue. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
