Re: [Nbd] [PATCH 2/5] nbd: Remove signal usage

Hi Markus, this looks great! Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig One thing I noticed, which might be a good cleanup in the future: > - spin_lock_irqsave(>tasks_lock, flags); > nbd->task_recv = current; > - spin_unlock_irqrestore(>tasks_lock, flags); It seems like

[Nbd] [PATCH 2/5] nbd: Remove signal usage

As discussed on the mailing list, the usage of signals for timeout handling has a lot of potential issues. The nbd driver used for some time signals for timeouts. These signals where able to get the threads out of the blocking socket operations. This patch removes all signal usage and uses a