Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Convert all tasklets to workqueues

[Ingo Molnar]

* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > And this is something that might be fine for benchmarking, but not something
> > we should put in.  Keeping two wildly different implementation of core
> > functionality with very different behaviour around is quite bad.  Better
> > kill tasklets once for all.
> 
> Honestly, I highly doubted that this would make it up to Linus's tree.

that's where it belongs - but it first needs the cleanups suggested by 
Christoph.

> My aim was to get this into -mm, [...]

that would be the first step towards getting it upstream.

> and perhaps even turn on the tasklets-as-workqueues as default.

that is a hack that shouldnt be in the patch. People can unapply/apply a 
patch just as well as they can flip a .config switch.

	Ingo
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