Re: [RFC PATCH 00/30] softirq: Make softirqs soft-interruptible (+ per vector disablement)

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 01:11:47 +0200
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 945 files changed, 13857 insertions(+), 9767 deletions(-)

Impressive :)

I have to ask a dumb question, though.  Might it not be better to add a
new set of functions like:

	local_softirq_disable(mask);
	spin_lock_softirq(lock, mask);

Then just define the existing functions to call the new ones with
SOFTIRQ_ALL_MASK?  It would achieve something like the same result with
far less churn and conflict potential; then individual call sites could be
changed at leisure?  For extra credit, somebody could do a checkpatch rule
to keep new calls to the _bh functions from being added.

Thanks,

jon