On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 10:31:48AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote: > Disabling the tasklet leaves it if scheduled on the ready to run list > until it is re-enabled. This will leave the ksoftird thread spinning > until satisfied. To prevent this situation on starting the GPU reset, we > want to kill the tasklet first and then disable. The same problem will > arise when a tasklet is scheduled from another device, so a better > solution is required for the general case. Ok, the loop inside softirq is something else. I think there is still some merit in using kill to remove the a scheduled tasklet, disable will leave it on the queue for the next enable. -Chris -- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
