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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 10:15:38 +0200
From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Modernize tasklet callback API

On 2020-07-16 09:57:18 [+0200], Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> there appear to be hardly any users left.. Can't we stage an extinction
> event here instead?

Most of the time the tasklet is scheduled from an interrupt handler. So
we could get rid of these tasklets by using threaded IRQs.

Sebastian

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