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From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To:     Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] block/umem: convert tasklet to threaded irq
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On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 05:48:56PM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> Tasklets have long been deprecated as being too heavy on the system
> by running in irq context - and this is not a performance critical
> path. If a higher priority process wants to run, it must wait for
> the tasklet to finish before doing so. A more suitable equivalent
> is to converted to threaded irq instead and deal with the async
> processing in task context.

I'm really curious if this driver is still in use at all, or if we
can drop it.