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

[Andrew Morton]

> On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:58:44 -0400 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 14:38 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * 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.
> 
> I had the impression that he didn't want it in, but instead wanted each
> driver to be changed separately.

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.

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