Re: [PATCH] mailbox: bcm: Replace tasklet with threaded irq

[Jassi Brar]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 6:21 PM Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Tasklets have long been deprecated as being too heavy on the system
> by running in irq context - and this is not a performance critical
> path. If a higher priority process wants to run, it must wait for
> the tasklet to finish before doing so.
>
> Use a more suitable alternative such as threaded irqs and do the
> async work in process context.
>
> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@xxxxxxx>
> ---
Please cc the author and other contributors to this file, esp when
this is vendor specific code.

thanks.