Re: [PATCH 0/4] scsi: hisi_sas: Switch to use tasklet over threaded irq handling

[Bart Van Assche]

On 8/22/25 12:59 AM, Yihang Li wrote:
> We found that when the CPU handling the interrupt thread is occupied by
> other high-priority processes, the interrupt thread will not be scheduled.
> So there is a change to switch the driver to use tasklet over threaded
> interrupt handling.
Tasklets have severe disadvantages and hence their removal has been
proposed several times. See e.g. https://lwn.net/Articles/960041/.
There must be a better solution than switching to tasklets.

Bart.