netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net/mvpp2: Replace tasklet with softirq hrtimer

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Date:   Wed, 14 Aug 2019 20:02:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     bigeasy@...utronix.de
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
        maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/mvpp2: Replace tasklet with softirq
 hrtimer

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:00:25 +0200

> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> 
> The tx_done_tasklet tasklet is used in invoke the hrtimer
> (mvpp2_hr_timer_cb) in softirq context. This can be also achieved without
> the tasklet but with HRTIMER_MODE_SOFT as hrtimer mode.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>

Applied.