Re: [patch] kwaitd, 2.5.31-A1

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 06:01:48PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> the reaping of the thread is thus not done by the parent (or init), but by
> per-CPU [kwaitd] kernel threads. The exiting thread queues itself always
> to the CPU-local kwaitd queue, to maintain locality of reference and cheap
> switching to kwaitd.

Is there a reason you don't use kevent for this?  Especially when going to
the per-CPU kevent as part of aio?