Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756130AbXFVMkZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:40:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753745AbXFVMkK (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:40:10 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:59139 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753643AbXFVMkJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:40:09 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:38:05 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Christoph Hellwig , LKML , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner , john stultz , Oleg Nesterov , "Paul E. McKenney" , Dipankar Sarma , "David S. Miller" , kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Convert all tasklets to workqueues Message-ID: <20070622123805.GA9770@elte.hu> References: <20070622040014.234651401@goodmis.org> <20070622070948.GA21291@infradead.org> <1182515542.5493.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1182515542.5493.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.0.3 -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1021 Lines: 28 * Steven Rostedt 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 - 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/