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

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Message-ID: <20070622140024.GA1409@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:00:24 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	rostedt@...dmis.org, hch@...radead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, johnstul@...ibm.com, oleg@...sign.ru,
	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	davem@...emloft.net, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Convert all tasklets to workqueues


* Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> > there are 120 tasklet_init()s in the tree and 224 
> > tasklet_schedule()s.
> 
> couple of hours?

hm, what would you replace it with? Another new API? Or to workqueues 
with a manual adding of a local_bh_disable()/enable() pair around the 
worker function? If the latter, then converting it to workqueues isnt 
just a couple of hours i think. Maybe i'm overestimating the effort.

	Ingo
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