Re: [PREEMPT-RT] [REPOST PATCH 1/5] scsi: bnx2i: convert to kworker

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On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 05:31:03PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Nov 2016, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> > It seems like the whole damn driver should just use threaded interrupts.
> > Of course it's a giant beast and not just the iSCSI one.  But even
> > if we don't go all the way I'd much prefer workqueues.  kthread work
> > is simply the worst API ever and I'd prefer to not have it proliferate.
> 
> That's what the patch is doing. It uses INIT_WORK() and
> schedule_work[_on](). I can't find any reference to kthread work.

You're right it does - between the incorrect subject and the fact
that it still keeps the linked list of items arounds instead of fully
using the workqueue infrastructure I was a bit confused before my
first coffee this morning.  Same applies to patch 2.
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