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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/4] allow multiple kthreadd's
On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 07:05:46PM +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-05-01 at 14:49 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 02:21:54PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 10:59:24AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > > Which kind of makes me want to point a finger at Tejun. But it's
> > > > been
> > > > mostly PeterZ touching this file lately..
> > >
> > > Looks fine to me too. I don't quite understand the usecase tho. It
> > > looks
> > > like all it's being used for is to tag some kthreads as belonging
> > > to the
> > > same group.
> >
> > Pretty much.
>
> Wen running an instance of knfsd from inside a container, you want to
> be able to have the knfsd kthreads be parented to the container init
> process so that they get killed off when the container is killed.
>
> Right now, we can easily leak those kernel threads simply by killing
> the container.

Oh, got it.

Currently knfsd supports nfs service in containers, but it uses a single
set of threads to serve requests from any container. It should shut the
server threads down when the last container using them goes away.

--b.

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