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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-devel@lists.linux.dev,
	Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] softirq: Provide a handshake for canceling tasklets via polling on PREEMPT_RT
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:49:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250826154942.BcGs2_U5@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aKix80fycymWz3Mh@slm.duckdns.org>

On 2025-08-22 08:07:47 [-1000], Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Sebastian.
Hi Tejun,

> Agreed, once we get rid of them, we can drop the whole block for both RT and
> !RT - ie. revert the patch that added it. But, wouldn't it be more orderly
> to match the semantics in both cases even if the behavior isn't quite
> optimal? We can put some comment noting what to do once the culprits are
> updated to not need it.

Sure. I am only worried that if something is possible, people will use
it. I don't think things will change if we debate for another week ;)
The first patch here in this thread should provide the symmetrical API.

Oh. We could also hide this polling API behind a special API which is
hidden just for three special cases so everyone else would do the right
job.

> Thanks.

Sebastian

  reply	other threads:[~2025-08-26 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-08-12 14:39 [PATCH] softirq: Provide a handshake for canceling tasklets via polling on PREEMPT_RT Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2025-08-12 14:53 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2025-08-12 19:38   ` Tejun Heo
2025-08-13  6:33     ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2025-08-13 18:05       ` Tejun Heo
2025-08-18 12:52         ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2025-08-18 17:41           ` Tejun Heo
2025-08-19 15:01             ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2025-08-20 10:36               ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2025-08-20 10:55                 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2025-08-20 19:44                   ` Tejun Heo
2025-08-21  9:28                     ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2025-08-21 17:10                       ` Tejun Heo
2025-08-22  9:48                         ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2025-08-22 18:07                           ` Tejun Heo
2025-08-26 15:49                             ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior [this message]
2025-08-26 16:27                               ` Tejun Heo
2025-08-28 16:04                                 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2025-08-29 19:34                                   ` Tejun Heo
2025-08-13  8:20 ` kernel test robot

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