linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 2/6] Split out tasklets from softirq.c

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Message-ID: <20070622071151.GC21291@infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:11:51 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@...ibm.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, matthew.wilcox@...com,
	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/6] Split out tasklets from softirq.c

On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 12:00:16AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Tasklets are really a separate entity from softirqs, so they
> deserve their own file. Also this allows us to easily replace
> tasklets for something else ;-)

It's a bit pointless when softirq.h still always includes it.  A while
ago I had a patch that split it out and made all users include it directly.
But reviving this patch would be rather pointless if we just want to kill
tasklets in the end anyway.

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