Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 07/10] io_uring: switch to kernel_worker
To:     Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>, geert@linux-m68k.org,
        vverma@digitalocean.com, hdanton@sina.com, hch@infradead.org,
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        christian.brauner@ubuntu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
References: <20211121174930.6690-1-michael.christie@oracle.com>
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From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Date:   Sun, 21 Nov 2021 11:17:11 -0700
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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.

Also I do think this deserves a bit more commit message, there's really
nothing in here.

-- 
Jens Axboe