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| author | Pat Somaru <patso@likewhatevs.io> | 2026-02-07 13:20:01 -0500 |
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| committer | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2026-02-28 12:54:14 +0900 |
| commit | 2127a1bf8940ea76b4fc604fa6b5e4d734ca22ed (patch) | |
| tree | da0ec0cc021b989bde635413d619b11d721c76b0 /tools/perf/scripts/python | |
| parent | 404ba6b46b6e234384b962210a98931f7423f139 (diff) | |
crypto: virtio - Convert from tasklet to BH workqueue
The only generic interface to execute asynchronously in the BH context
is tasklet; however, it's marked deprecated and has some design flaws
such as the execution code accessing the tasklet item after the
execution is complete which can lead to subtle use-after-free in certain
usage scenarios and less-developed flush and cancel mechanisms.
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.
Convert virtio_crypto_core.c from tasklet to BH workqueue.
Semantically, this is an equivalent conversion and there shouldn't be
any user-visible behavior changes. The BH workqueue implementation uses
the same softirq infrastructure, and performance-critical networking
conversions have shown no measurable performance impact.
Signed-off-by: Pat Somaru <patso@likewhatevs.io>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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