[PATCH 09/10] scsi/ibmvscsi: Replace srp tasklet with work

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy at linutronix.de
Fri Jun 10 01:02:49 AEST 2022


On 2022-05-30 16:15:11 [-0700], Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> Tasklets have long been deprecated as being too heavy on the system
> by running in irq context - and this is not a performance critical
> path. If a higher priority process wants to run, it must wait for
> the tasklet to finish before doing so.
> 
> Process srps asynchronously in process context in a dedicated
> single threaded workqueue.

I would suggest threaded interrupts instead. The pattern here is the
same as in the previous driver except here is less locking.

Sebastian


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