Re: [PATCH v8 for-xen-4.5 2/2] dpci: Replace tasklet with an softirq (v8)

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 09:36:04AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 25.10.14 at 02:39, <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:
> > We can stick the 'quisce' part at the end of 'pt_pirq_destroy_bind' or
> > at the start of 'pt_irq_create_bind'. And the only way I can think of doing
> > this quisce is:
> > 
> >      if ( pt_pirq_softirq_active(pirq_dpci) )
> >      {
> >          spin_unlock(&d->event_lock);
> > -        ASSERT_NOT_IN_ATOMIC();
> > -        process_pending_softirqs();
> > +        cpu_relax();
> >          goto restart;
> >      }
> > 
> > Which would replicate what a 'tasklet_kill' does.
> 
> Ah, right, it was you who added the process_pending_softirqs()
> despite tasklet_kill() not having it. With the comment referring to

Yes. I was trying to be clever.

> tasklet_kill()'s behavior I think this is fine to be done as you
> suggest above.
> 
> Jan
>