Hello, 11/27/2009 05:37 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote: >> Sounds like it should be using bottom half tasklet not workqueue. >> Tasklet is exactly designed to handle situations like this. Is there >> any reason tasklet can't be used? > > Right now the h/w accessing code is using mutex. I'm not sure whether > the deeper part might sleep, though... Ah... I see. Using mutex from a handler where response time is critical is strange tho. Anyways, I don't really think singlethread will satisfy the timing requirement under loaded conditions. IMHO, update locking and using tasklets would be the best. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
