[dm-devel] [PATCH 6/6] multipathd: Remove a busy-waiting loop

[Bart Van Assche]

On 08/15/2016 11:31 PM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Makes one wonder: what happens to the waitevent threads?
> We won't be waiting for them after applying this patch, right?
> So why did we ever had this busy loop here?
> Ben?
>
> (And while we're at the subject: can't we drop the waitevent threads
> altogether? We're listening to uevents nowadays, so we should be
> notified if something happened to the device-mapper tables. Which should
> make the waitevent threads unnecessary, right?)

Hello Hannes,

Maybe this is not what you had in mind, but would you agree with the 
attached two patches?

Thanks,

Bart.


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