> On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:26:22 +0200 Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> * Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I do think that would be a better approach. Apart from the
> > cleanliness issue, the driver-by-driver conversion would make it much
> > easier to hunt down any regresions or various funnineses.
>
> there are 120 tasklet_init()s in the tree and 224 tasklet_schedule()s.
couple of hours?
> Pushing it into thread context should work just fine (Steve's patchset
> certainly works on my testbox), as even today we can execute softirqs
> (and hence tasklets) in ksoftirqd. In fact, -rt has been executing
> tasklets in task context for over 2.5 years meanwhile. Do we really want
> to upset the whole API? Realistically it just wont ever be removed, like
> the BKL.
We can remove it. It might need to remain deprecated for a year, but we
shouldn't plan on leaving the old interface hanging around for ever.
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