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

[Arjan van de Ven]

> The most part, tasklets today are not used for time critical functions.
> Running tasklets in thread context is not harmful to performance of
> the overall system. 

That is a bold statement...

> But running them in interrupt context is, since
> they increase the overall latency for high priority tasks.


.... since by moving this to process context you do add latency between
the hardirq and the tasklet, and I can see that having performance
impact easily.


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