Hello, On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 12:52:51PM -0400, Lyude Paul wrote: > Hi, thanks for the response! And yes-I think this would actually be perfect > for what we need, I guess one question I might as well ask since I've got you > here: would patches to expose an unlocked version of kthread_queue_worker() be > accepted? With something like that I should be able to just reuse the > delayed_work_list and spinlocks that come with kthread_worker which would make > the vblank works implementation a bit easier
Difficult to tell w/o looking at the code but if technically reasonable and justified, I don't see a reason why something like that couldn't be accepted. That said, whatever gain coming from sharing an inner lock like that usually is miniscule and API and logic simplicity often easily outweighs. Thanks. -- tejun _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list Nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
