Re: [PATCH] Use tty_schedule in VT code.

Linus Torvalds
2007-07-17T19:44:44Z

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Paul Fulghum wrote:
>
> The scheduling is to move the processing out of interrupt context.
> The receive data is often extracted from the hardware
> at interrupt time and then queued for processing.

You misunderstand.

If the "delay" is zero, then why are you using "delayed" workqueues at
all?

A delay of zero tends to be pointless. It's not a delay at all, and you
could just use the regular NON-DELAYING workqueues.

Linus