Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Nov 2021 11:02:28 +0100 | From | Christian Brauner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V5 07/10] io_uring: switch to kernel_worker |
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On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 11:17:11AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 11/21/21 10:49 AM, Mike Christie wrote: > > Convert io_uring and io-wq to use kernel_worker. > > I don't like the kernel_worker name, that implies it's always giving you > a kernel thread or kthread. That's not the io_uring use case, it's > really just a thread off the original task that just happens to never > exit to userspace. > > Can we do a better name? At least io_thread doesn't imply that.
Yeah, I had thought about that as well and at first had kernel_uworker() locally but wasn't convinced. Maybe we should just make it create_user_worker()?
Christian
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