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Re: [PATCH 2/2] Rewrite gsync so that it works with remote tasks v2


From: Justus Winter
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Rewrite gsync so that it works with remote tasks v2
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 20:35:04 +0100

Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> writes:

> Agustina Arzille, on lun. 06 mars 2017 15:24:16 -0300, wrote:
>> On 2017-03-04 19:44, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> > (thus related with Brent's "multithread rpctrace to avoid deadlocks in
>> > the kernel" patch)
>> 
>> Could be. I'm a bit puzzled as to why rpctrace uses a single thread to trace
>> every RPC in a program.
>
> Probably for simplicity :)
>
> I guess you shouldn't try to workaround the issue, let's just fix
> rpctrace :)

Note that there is no real need for it to be multithreaded, because it
doesn't block anywhere, it just relays messages.  Also, it has to
serialize the messages it prints out anyway.  I'm not sure what Brent
was trying to fix though.

Justus

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