> On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:26:22 +0200 Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
