Queries on bottom halves

valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu
Sun Sep 2 13:39:07 EDT 2018


On Sun, 02 Sep 2018 20:58:14 +0530, Abhinav Misra said:

> But if in new kernel this implementation is changed then why we need so
> many options to defer the work as all of them are basically getting
> executed in almost the same way.* In that case code running softirq,
> tasklet, workqueue and kernel thread are all same ?*
> If this is true then why we just remove all these these option and keep one
> or two alternative.

-ENOPATCH

Often the gain from simplification isn't enough to motivate somebody to
actually do all the work of coding and exhaustively testing the patch series.

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