Currently a tasklet is used to transmit input substream buffer
data. However, 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.
Deferring work to a workqueue and executing in process context
should be fine considering the callback already does
f_midi_do_transmit() under the transmit_lock and thus changes in
semantics are ok regarding concurrency - tasklets being serialized
against itself.
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Acked-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210111042855.73289-1-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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