On 03. 04. 24, 18:15, Allen Pais wrote:
The only generic interface to execute asynchronously in the BH context is tasklet; however, it's marked deprecated and has some design flaws. To replace tasklets, BH workqueue support was recently added. A BH workqueue behaves similarly to regular workqueues except that the queued work items are executed in the BH context. This patch converts drivers/tty/* from tasklet to BH workqueue.
Quickly looking into the changes, could you also elaborate why not to convert most (all?) of them to (non-BH) wq? Or threaded IRQs. Much of the code comes from the pre-WQ era.
thanks, -- js suse labs
