On 11/22/21 3:02 AM, Christian Brauner wrote: > 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()?
That's better, or maybe even create_user_inkernel_thread() or something? Pretty long, though... I'd be fine with create_user_worker(). -- Jens Axboe _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
