Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Convert all tasklets to workqueues

[Andrew Morton]

> On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:26:22 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> * Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

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