linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] soc: qcom: rpmh-rsc: Sleep waiting for tcs slots to be free

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Message-ID: <159562149056.3847286.11191144133990578500@swboyd.mtv.corp.google.com>
Date:   Fri, 24 Jul 2020 13:11:30 -0700
From:   Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>
To:     Lina Iyer <ilina@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arm-msm <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Maulik Shah <mkshah@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] soc: qcom: rpmh-rsc: Sleep waiting for tcs slots to be free

Quoting Lina Iyer (2020-07-24 13:08:41)
> On Fri, Jul 24 2020 at 14:01 -0600, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> >Quoting Doug Anderson (2020-07-24 12:49:56)
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 12:44 PM Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org> wrote:
> >I think Lina was alluding to this earlier in this
> >thread.
> I was thinking more of threaded irq handler than a kthread to post the
> requests. We went away from post-thread approach a few years ago.
> 

Ok, got it. Why was the kthread approach abandoned?