Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Convert all tasklets to workqueues | From | (Jonathan Corbet) | Date | Sun, 24 Jun 2007 09:16:07 -0600 |
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> so how about the following, different approach: anyone who has a tasklet > in any performance-sensitive codepath, please yell now.
The cafe_ccic (OLPC) camera driver uses a tasklet to move frames out of the DMA buffers in the streaming I/O path. With this change in place, I'd worry that the possibility of dropping frames would increase, especially considering that (1) this is running on OLPC hardware, and (2) there is typically a streaming video application running in user space.
Obviously some testing is called for here. I will make an attempt to do that testing, but the next few weeks involve some insane travel which will make that hard. Stay tuned.
Thanks,
jon
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