Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@xxxxxxxxx> : [...] > Hrm, relatively new + tasklet woes rings a bell. Ah, that.. > > <quote> > What's worse is that at the point where this code was written it was > already well known that tasklets are a steaming pile of crap and > should die. > </quote> > > Source thereof https://lwn.net/Articles/588457/ tasklets are ingrained in the dmaengine API (see Documentation/dmaengine/client.txt and drivers/dma/virt-dma.h::vchan_cookie_complete). Moving everything to irq context or handling his own sub-{jiffy/ms} timer while losing async dma doesn't exactly smell like roses either. :o( -- Ueimor -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dmaengine" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
