Re: [PATCH 04/10] scsi/aic94xx: Replace the donelist tasklet with threaded irq

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On 2022-05-30 16:15:06 [-0700], Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> Tasklets have long been deprecated as being too heavy on the system
> by running in irq context - and this is not a performance critical
> path. If a higher priority process wants to run, it must wait for
> the tasklet to finish before doing so. A more suitable equivalent
> is to converted to threaded irq instead and deal with the processing
> of donelist entries task context.
> 
> Also rename a lot of calls removing the 'tasklet' part, which
> of course no longer applies.

The change looks okay except that I don't see where the interrupt source
is disabled. It looks like asd_disable_ints() plus the last part of
asd_enable_ints() is needed.

> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Sebastian



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