Re: [PATCH] nbd.c:sock_xmit: cleanup signal related code

[Paul Clements]

Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> sock_xmit() re-implements sigprocmask() and dequeue_signal_lock().

Yeah, that code was written before those existed. Thanks for the clean up.

> Note: I can't understand this dequeue_signal(), it can dequeue SIGKILL
> for the user-space task doing nbd_ioctl() ?

So we can interrupt an nbd transmission without waiting for a TCP 
timeout (when we know the network is down).

> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>

Patch looks good to me.

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Paul
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