Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:41:59 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Convert all tasklets to workqueues |
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> On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:26:22 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote: > > * Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > > I do think that would be a better approach. Apart from the > > cleanliness issue, the driver-by-driver conversion would make it much > > easier to hunt down any regresions or various funnineses. > > there are 120 tasklet_init()s in the tree and 224 tasklet_schedule()s.
couple of hours?
> Pushing it into thread context should work just fine (Steve's patchset > certainly works on my testbox), as even today we can execute softirqs > (and hence tasklets) in ksoftirqd. In fact, -rt has been executing > tasklets in task context for over 2.5 years meanwhile. Do we really want > to upset the whole API? Realistically it just wont ever be removed, like > the BKL.
We can remove it. It might need to remain deprecated for a year, but we shouldn't plan on leaving the old interface hanging around for ever.
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