On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 08:53:00PM -0800, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > The parallel port restore operation currently defers writes > to a tasklet, if it sees a locked disconnect mutex. The > driver goes to a lot of trouble to ensure writes happen > in a non-blocking context, but things can be greatly > simplified if it's done in regular process context and > this is not a system performance critical path. As such, > instead of doing the state restore writes in irq context, > use a workqueue and just do regular synchronous writes. > > In addition to the cleanup, this also imposes less on the > overall system as tasklets have been deprecated because > of it's softirq implications, potentially blocking a higher > priority task from running. > > Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@xxxxxxx> Now applied, thanks! Johan
