kernel 4.* what is the process "bioset" ?

[legacy]

so I have noticed a lot of processes "bioset" and it's not clear what it is.

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# ps -a | grep bioset

  860 ?        00:00:00 bioset
  863 ?        00:00:00 bioset
  866 ?        00:00:00 bioset
  869 ?        00:00:00 bioset
  872 ?        00:00:00 bioset
  875 ?        00:00:00 bioset
  878 ?        00:00:00 bioset
  881 ?        00:00:00 bioset
  884 ?        00:00:00 bioset
  885 ?        00:00:00 bioset
  886 ?        00:00:00 bioset
  887 ?        00:00:00 bioset
  888 ?        00:00:00 bioset
  889 ?        00:00:00 bioset
  890 ?        00:00:00 bioset
  891 ?        00:00:00 bioset
  892 ?        00:00:00 bioset
  893 ?        00:00:00 bioset
  894 ?        00:00:00 bioset
  895 ?        00:00:00 bioset
  896 ?        00:00:00 bioset
  897 ?        00:00:00 bioset
  898 ?        00:00:00 bioset
  899 ?        00:00:00 bioset
  932 ?        00:00:00 bioset
  935 ?        00:00:00 bioset


the whole rootfs is an embedded stage4, profiled to be a router device, so it's really weird.
Kernel linux v4.9.6

Googling made me more confused about this 

[HwAoRrDk]

This may help explain:

http://johanlouwers.blogspot.com/2017/10/oracle-linux-digging-into-bioset-kernel.html

[legacy]

thanks a lot! This does clarify!