Re: [Jfs-discussion] Unneeded kernel threads (xfs, jfs, gfs2)

[Eric Sandeen]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 05:21:56AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> Well, we could refcount the number of active xfs instances and
>> start/stop the global threads based on that.  Not really worth my
>> time IHMO, but if someone comes up with a clean enough patch it should
>> go in.
> 
> Actually doing it in the VFS might be even better.  Add ->init and
> ->exit methods to struct file_system_type and then the filesystems can
> move most of module_init/exit into the new methods.

Hmm I like that idea! :)

-Eric
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