On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 07:03:11PM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > Sure - XFS will start another three kernel threads per filesystem > that gets mounted. And for good measure, it cleans them up again > on unmount. :) > > The other threads are per-cpu workqueue threads that are shared > across all XFS filesystems in the system and hence are started > when XFS is initialised rather than when a mount occurs.
Well, we could refcount the number of active xfs instances and start/stop the global threads based on that. Not really worth my time IHMO, but if someone comes up with a clean enough patch it should go in.
