Re: function call fw_iso_resource_mange(..) (core-iso.c) does notreturn

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed May 22 2013 - 05:22:57 EST


Hello,

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:08:43AM +0200, Stephan Gatzka wrote:
> >There is quite a bit going on in firewire-ohci's and
> >firewire-core's parts
> >of self-ID-complete event handling. But I suspect that stuff like
> >that is
> >still not in the league for which CPU_INTENSIVE was intended for
> >(cryptography etc.).
>
> Some advice from Tejun would be great here...

No need to use CPU_INTENSIVE unless it's really burning considerable
amount of CPU cycles. I don't know what the firewire work items are
doing but am pretty doubtful they would need the flag, and please
don't use it to work around deadlock problems. :)

Thanks.

--
tejun
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