From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
matthew.wilcox@hp.com, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Convert all tasklets to workqueues
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:32:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070622183217.GA18265@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0706221010490.3593@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 10:16:47AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >
> > I just want to state that tasklets served their time well. But it's time
> > to give them an honorable discharge. So lets get rid of tasklets and
> > given them a standing salute as they leave :-)
>
> Well, independently of whether we actually discharge them or not, I do
> tend to always like things that split independent concepts up (whether
> they then end up being _implemented_ independently of each other or not is
> a separate issue).
>
> So patches 1-4 all look fine to me. In fact, 5 looks ok too.
I don't think we should put 3 and 4 in. The code in drm is just crap and
should just be rewritten. I'll cook up a patch, but I can't actually
yest it due to lack of hardware.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-22 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 129+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-22 4:00 [RFC PATCH 0/6] Convert all tasklets to workqueues Steven Rostedt
2007-06-22 4:00 ` [RFC PATCH 1/6] Convert the RCU tasklet into a softirq Steven Rostedt
2007-06-22 7:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-22 7:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-22 12:35 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-06-22 12:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-22 4:00 ` [RFC PATCH 2/6] Split out tasklets from softirq.c Steven Rostedt
2007-06-22 7:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-22 12:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-06-22 13:45 ` Akinobu Mita
2007-06-22 13:58 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-06-22 4:00 ` [RFC PATCH 3/6] Add a tasklet is-scheduled API Steven Rostedt
2007-06-22 4:00 ` [RFC PATCH 4/6] Make DRM use the tasklet is-sched API Steven Rostedt
2007-06-22 6:36 ` Daniel Walker
2007-06-22 6:49 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-22 7:08 ` Daniel Walker
2007-06-22 12:15 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-06-22 15:36 ` Daniel Walker
2007-06-22 22:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-22 23:28 ` Daniel Walker
2007-06-22 16:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-22 16:56 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-06-22 18:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-22 23:38 ` Dave Airlie
2007-06-22 4:00 ` [RFC PATCH 5/6] Move tasklet.h to tasklet_softirq.h Steven Rostedt
2007-06-22 4:00 ` [RFC PATCH 6/6] Convert tasklets to work queues Steven Rostedt
2007-06-22 7:06 ` Daniel Walker
2007-06-22 13:29 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-06-22 15:52 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-06-22 16:35 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-06-23 11:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-22 7:09 ` [RFC PATCH 0/6] Convert all tasklets to workqueues Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-22 7:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-22 7:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-22 11:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-22 12:32 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-06-22 12:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-22 12:58 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-06-22 13:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-22 14:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-06-22 13:13 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-22 13:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-22 13:41 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-22 14:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-22 13:35 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-06-22 14:25 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-22 14:42 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-06-22 14:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-22 17:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-22 17:31 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-06-22 18:32 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-06-22 20:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-22 21:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-22 21:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-22 21:13 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-22 21:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-22 21:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-22 22:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-22 22:43 ` Roland Dreier
2007-06-22 22:57 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-22 22:58 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-06-23 6:23 ` Dave Airlie
2007-06-24 15:16 ` Jonathan Corbet
2007-06-24 15:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-06-25 16:50 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-06-25 17:06 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-06-25 20:50 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-06-25 21:03 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-06-25 19:52 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-06-26 0:00 ` Jonathan Corbet
2007-06-26 0:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-06-25 18:48 ` Kristian Høgsberg
2007-06-25 19:11 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-06-25 20:07 ` Kristian Høgsberg
2007-06-25 20:31 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-06-25 21:08 ` Kristian Høgsberg
2007-06-25 21:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-25 23:36 ` Stefan Richter
2007-06-26 0:46 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-06-26 1:46 ` Dan Williams
2007-06-26 2:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-06-26 2:12 ` Dan Williams
2007-06-28 12:37 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-06-28 16:37 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-06-28 18:02 ` Dan Williams
2007-06-28 20:46 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-06-28 21:23 ` Dan Williams
2007-06-28 21:40 ` Dan Williams
2007-06-28 22:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-06-28 22:00 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-06-28 5:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-28 9:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-28 14:38 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2007-06-28 15:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-28 15:54 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-06-28 16:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-28 17:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-28 17:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-28 18:19 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-28 20:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-29 11:34 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2007-06-29 11:48 ` Duncan Sands
2007-06-29 13:36 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2007-06-29 14:01 ` Duncan Sands
2007-06-29 16:34 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2007-06-29 12:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-29 13:25 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2007-06-29 13:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-29 15:23 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2007-06-29 13:41 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-06-29 14:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-29 14:26 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-06-29 19:04 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2007-06-29 14:27 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2007-06-29 15:51 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-06-29 16:21 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2007-06-29 16:52 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-06-29 17:09 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-06-30 11:25 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-06-28 15:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-22 21:53 ` Daniel Walker
2007-06-22 22:09 ` david
2007-06-22 22:15 ` Daniel Walker
2007-06-22 22:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-22 23:28 ` Daniel Walker
2007-06-22 22:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-23 5:14 ` Stephen Hemminger
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-06-26 13:03 Clemens Ladisch
2007-06-26 13:15 ` Takashi Iwai
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