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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PREEMPT-RT] [REPOST PATCH 1/5] scsi: bnx2i: convert to kworker
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 17:48:46 +0100
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On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 05:46:29PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> sorry for the confusion in the subject. If I remember correctly you said
> that we may not have enough room for a larger / work_struct struct and I
> should keep the list for now.

But that was for libfc where it only has a tiny bit of private data
i nthe skb - this is for cnix which has plenty of space, and in fact
probably should do the workqueue offload in the core before invoking
the protocol drivers.