Re: [PATCH 34/33] netfs: Use in_interrupt() not in_softirq()

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Feb 16 2021 - 04:32:50 EST


On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 09:29:31AM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Is there a better way to do it? The intent is to process the assessment phase
> in the calling thread's context if possible rather than bumping over to a
> worker thread. For synchronous I/O, for example, that's done in the caller's
> thread. Maybe that's the answer - if it's known to be asynchronous, I have to
> punt, but otherwise don't have to.

Yes, i think you want an explicit flag instead.