[PATCH 6/9] ipmi: Convert from tasklet to BH workqueue

Corey Minyard minyard at acm.org
Thu Mar 28 12:52:24 PDT 2024


On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 12:41:22PM -0700, Allen wrote:
> > > > I believe that work queues items are execute single-threaded for a work
> > > > queue, so this should be good.  I need to test this, though.  It may be
> > > > that an IPMI device can have its own work queue; it may not be important
> > > > to run it in bh context.
> > >
> > >   Fair point. Could you please let me know once you have had a chance to test
> > > these changes. Meanwhile, I will work on RFC wherein IPMI will have its own
> > > workqueue.
> > >
> > >  Thanks for taking time out to review.
> >
> > After looking and thinking about it a bit, a BH context is still
> > probably the best for this.
> >
> > I have tested this patch under load and various scenarios and it seems
> > to work ok.  So:
> >
> > Tested-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard at mvista.com>
> > Acked-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard at mvista.com>
> >
> > Or I can take this into my tree.
> >
> > -corey
> 
>  Thank you very much. I think it should be okay for you to carry it into
> your tree.

Ok, it's in my for-next tree.  I fixed the directory reference, and I
changed all the comments where you changed "tasklet" to "work" to
instead say "workqueue".

-corey

> 
> - Allen
> 



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