TASK_KILLABLE

Posted Apr 18, 2008 14:42 UTC (Fri) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: Stable kernel 2.6.25 released by willy
Parent article: Stable kernel 2.6.25 released

TASK_KILLABLE has been on my radar - I mentioned it in a merge window summary early in the 2.6.25 cycle. Always meant to look at it a bit more, but it fell through the cracks somehow. That happens to me a lot.

Apologies, anyway. This is, indeed, a worthwhile development. The dreaded "stuck in D state" problem has been there for as long as I've worked with Unix-like systems - a long time. It's about time somebody made things work better.