Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760940AbXFVSca (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:32:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759063AbXFVScV (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:32:21 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:59103 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755863AbXFVScU (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:32:20 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:32:17 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Steven Rostedt , LKML , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner , Christoph Hellwig , 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: <20070622183217.GA18265@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Linus Torvalds , Steven Rostedt , LKML , Ingo Molnar , 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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: 1061 Lines: 25 On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 10:16:47AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > > I just want to state that tasklets served their time well. But it's time > > to give them an honorable discharge. So lets get rid of tasklets and > > given them a standing salute as they leave :-) > > Well, independently of whether we actually discharge them or not, I do > tend to always like things that split independent concepts up (whether > they then end up being _implemented_ independently of each other or not is > a separate issue). > > So patches 1-4 all look fine to me. In fact, 5 looks ok too. I don't think we should put 3 and 4 in. The code in drm is just crap and should just be rewritten. I'll cook up a patch, but I can't actually yest it due to lack of hardware. - 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/