[PATCH 1/9] hyperv: Convert from tasklet to BH workqueue

Allen allen.lkml at gmail.com
Thu Apr 4 03:43:57 AEDT 2024


> The only generic interface to execute asynchronously in the BH context is
> tasklet; however, it's marked deprecated and has some design flaws. To
> replace tasklets, BH workqueue support was recently added. A BH workqueue
> behaves similarly to regular workqueues except that the queued work items
> are executed in the BH context.
>
> This patch converts drivers/hv/* from tasklet to BH workqueue.
>
> Based on the work done by Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>
> Branch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq.git for-6.10
>
> Signed-off-by: Allen Pais <allen.lkml at gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/hv/channel.c      |  8 ++++----
>  drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c |  5 ++---
>  drivers/hv/connection.c   |  9 +++++----
>  drivers/hv/hv.c           |  3 +--
>  drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c   |  4 ++--
>  drivers/hv/hv_fcopy.c     |  8 ++++----
>  drivers/hv/hv_kvp.c       |  8 ++++----
>  drivers/hv/hv_snapshot.c  |  8 ++++----
>  drivers/hv/hyperv_vmbus.h |  9 +++++----
>  drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c    | 19 ++++++++++---------
>  include/linux/hyperv.h    |  2 +-
>  11 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)

Wei,

 I need to send out a v2 as I did not include the second patch that
updates drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.c

Thanks.


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