Hello! > If I understand correctly, this is because tasklet_head.list is protected > by local_irq_save(), and t could be scheduled on another CPU, so we just > can't steal it, yes? Yes. All that code is written to avoid synchronization as much as possible. > If we use worqueues, we can change the semantics of tasklet_kill() so > that it really cancels an already scheduled tasklet. > > The question is: would it be the wrong/good change? If it does not add another usec to tasklet_schedule(), it would be good. Alexey - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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