linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tasklet: Introduce tasklet tracepoints

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Message-ID: <873637838m.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
Date:   Thu, 24 Sep 2020 19:59:53 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>, rostedt@...dmis.org,
        mingo@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org, will@...nel.org,
        romain.perier@...il.com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tasklet: Introduce tasklet tracepoints

On Sat, Sep 05 2020 at 14:04, Muchun Song wrote:

> Introduce tracepoints for tasklets just like softirq does.

What does softirq?

> In this case, we can calculate tasklet latency and know what tasklet
> run.

I rather see people working on removal of tasklets.

Thanks,

        tglx