Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755446AbXFVHxa (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:53:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752432AbXFVHxO (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:53:14 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:40276 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752264AbXFVHxN (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:53:13 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:53:04 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Steven Rostedt , LKML , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner , john stultz , Oleg Nesterov , "Paul E. McKenney" , Dipankar Sarma , "David S. Miller" , matthew.wilcox@hp.com, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Convert all tasklets to workqueues Message-ID: <20070622075304.GA22682@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Ingo Molnar , Steven Rostedt , LKML , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner , john stultz , Oleg Nesterov , "Paul E. McKenney" , Dipankar Sarma , "David S. Miller" , matthew.wilcox@hp.com, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru References: <20070622040014.234651401@goodmis.org> <20070622070948.GA21291@infradead.org> <20070622075135.GA11695@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070622075135.GA11695@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 756 Lines: 18 On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 09:51:35AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > I think we probably want some numbers, at least for tasklets used in > > potentially performance critical code. > > which actual in-kernel tasklets do you have in mind? I'm not aware of > any in performance critical code. (now that both the RCU and the sched > tasklet has been fixed.) the one in megaraid_sas for example is in a performance-critical path and was put in quite recently. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/