From: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
To: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>, Allen Pais <apais@linux.microsoft.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 1/1] drivers/dma/*: replace tasklets with workqueue
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 08:20:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e8cb3d63-f5b9-d067-af66-86f7a7c7f76c@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YmiuUy+PAjKEq6uE@matsya>
On 4/26/2022 7:45 PM, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On 19-04-22, 21:16, Allen Pais wrote:
>> The tasklet is an old API which will be deprecated, workqueue API
>> cab be used instead of them.
> What is the reason for tasklet removal, I am not sure old is a reason to
> remove an API...
>
>> This patch replaces the tasklet usage in drivers/dma/* with a
>> simple work.
> Dmaengines need very high throughput, one of the reasons in dmaengine
> API design to use tasklet was higher priority given to them. Will the
> workqueue allow that...?
Wouldn't the logical move be to convert threaded irq IF tasklets are
being deprecated rather than using workqueue as replacement?
Also, wouldn't all the spin_lock_bh() calls need to be changed to
spin_lock_irqsave() now? Probably not as simple as just replace tasklet
with workqueue.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-27 15:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-19 21:16 [RFC 0/1] refactor all tasklet users into other APIs Allen Pais
2022-04-19 21:16 ` [RFC 1/1] drivers/dma/*: replace tasklets with workqueue Allen Pais
2022-04-20 2:31 ` Kees Cook
2022-04-22 16:48 ` Allen Pais
2022-04-25 15:06 ` Linus Walleij
2022-04-25 23:59 ` Allen Pais
2022-04-25 15:56 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2022-04-25 19:55 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2022-04-28 9:29 ` Andy Shevchenko
[not found] ` <DA101ED8-F99F-4DCB-9CB7-370A62C44B65@linux.microsoft.com>
2022-05-12 21:54 ` Linus Walleij
2022-05-16 11:40 ` Vinod Koul
2022-04-26 0:04 ` Allen Pais
2022-04-27 2:45 ` Vinod Koul
2022-04-27 15:20 ` Dave Jiang [this message]
2022-04-27 15:58 ` Allen Pais
2022-04-27 15:53 ` Allen Pais
2022-05-25 9:24 ` Linus Walleij
2022-05-25 9:52 ` Vincent Guittot
2022-05-25 11:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-05-25 15:14 ` David Laight
[not found] ` <6E248F41-6687-4F2B-B847-DB5459BA1344@linux.microsoft.com>
2022-05-25 17:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-05-25 18:04 ` Allen Pais
2022-05-27 8:06 ` Vinod Koul
2022-05-27 10:59 ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-05-31 6:56 ` Vinod Koul
[not found] ` <0A9EDEDC-9E6C-47F8-89C0-48DCDD3F9DE3@linux.microsoft.com>
2022-05-31 18:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-05-31 18:19 ` Allen Pais
2022-05-31 19:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
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