nvme: replace the kthread with a per-device watchdog timer

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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@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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Christoph Hellwig 2016-02-29 15:59:46 +01:00 • committed by Jens Axboe

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