[PATCH 3/3] nvme: replace the kthread with a per-device watchdog timer

Johannes Thumshirn jthumshirn at suse.de
Thu Feb 18 00:36:52 PST 2016


On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 07:03:14PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The only work left in the kthread is the periodic health check for each
> controller.  There is no need to run this from process context or keep
> a thread context around for it, so replace it with a simpler timer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>

Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn at suse.de>

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