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Change word in tasklet description
The word 'defator' is unable to be found in a lexicon. Change the word 'defator' with 'drawbacks' which should imply the negative meaning intended in the sentence.
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Example tasklet init continues...
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Example tasklet ends
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\end{verbatim}
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Although tasklet is easy to use, it comes with several defators, and developers are discussing about getting rid of tasklet in linux kernel.
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Although tasklet is easy to use, it comes with several drawbacks, and developers are discussing about getting rid of tasklet in linux kernel.
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The tasklet callback runs in atomic context, inside a software interrupt, meaning that it cannot sleep or access user-space data, so not all work can be done in a tasklet handler.
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Also, the kernel only allows one instance of any given tasklet to be running at any given time; multiple different tasklet callbacks can run in parallel.
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