Re: [PATCH] add execute_in_process_context() API

[Andi Kleen]

On Wednesday 08 February 2006 09:18, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > 
> > In general this seems like a lot of code for a simple problem.
> > It might be simpler to just put the work structure into the parent
> > object and do the workqueue unconditionally
> > 
> 
> That apparently would have really bad performance problems.  If we're
> !in_interrupt() we want to do the work synchronously.

It depends if it's common or not. If it's uncommon then simpler code
is better.


-Andi
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