Messages in this thread | | | From | Jassi Brar <> | Date | Thu, 14 Jan 2021 19:23:08 -0600 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mailbox: bcm: Replace tasklet with threaded irq |
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On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 6:21 PM Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> wrote: > > Tasklets have long been deprecated as being too heavy on the system > by running in irq context - and this is not a performance critical > path. If a higher priority process wants to run, it must wait for > the tasklet to finish before doing so. > > Use a more suitable alternative such as threaded irqs and do the > async work in process context. > > Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> > --- Please cc the author and other contributors to this file, esp when this is vendor specific code.
thanks.
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