> > 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. > You are right. The idea I had was to convert every instance of tasklet to bh workqueues in the kernel. I will send out a v2, which will use threaded IRQ's. Thanks.
