Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Convert all tasklets to workqueues | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:25:09 -0700 |
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> The most part, tasklets today are not used for time critical functions. > Running tasklets in thread context is not harmful to performance of > the overall system.
That is a bold statement...
> But running them in interrupt context is, since > they increase the overall latency for high priority tasks.
.... since by moving this to process context you do add latency between the hardirq and the tasklet, and I can see that having performance impact easily.
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