[dm-devel] [PATCH 0/3] dm-verity: optionally use tasklets in dm-verity

[Mike Snitzer]

On Fri, Jul 22 2022 at  2:12P -0400,
Bart Van Assche <bvanassche at acm.org> wrote:

> On 7/22/22 09:41, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > We've been tying to kill off task lets for about 15 years.  I don't
> > think adding new users will make you a whole lot of friends..
> 
> +1 for not using tasklets. At least in Android the real-time thread
> scheduling latency is important. Tasklets are not visible to the scheduler
> and hence cause latency spikes for real-time threads. These latency spikes
> can be observed by users, e.g. if the real-time thread is involved in audio
> playback.

OK, then android wouldn't set the _optional_ "try_verify_in_tasklet"

Mike