Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757375AbXFVOF1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:05:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755085AbXFVOFT (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:05:19 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:36955 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754908AbXFVOFR (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:05:17 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:00:24 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Andrew Morton Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org, hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de, johnstul@us.ibm.com, oleg@tv-sign.ru, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, davem@davemloft.net, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Convert all tasklets to workqueues Message-ID: <20070622140024.GA1409@elte.hu> References: <20070622040014.234651401@goodmis.org> <20070622070948.GA21291@infradead.org> <1182515542.5493.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070622123805.GA9770@elte.hu> <1182517124.5493.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070622061326.2e2d6d15.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070622132622.GA21130@elte.hu> <20070622064159.b762cb13.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070622064159.b762cb13.akpm@linux-foundation.org> 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: 689 Lines: 19 * Andrew Morton wrote: > > there are 120 tasklet_init()s in the tree and 224 > > tasklet_schedule()s. > > couple of hours? hm, what would you replace it with? Another new API? Or to workqueues with a manual adding of a local_bh_disable()/enable() pair around the worker function? If the latter, then converting it to workqueues isnt just a couple of hours i think. Maybe i'm overestimating the effort. 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/