From: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: willy@debian.org, rml@mvista.com, torvalds@transmeta.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace timer_bh with tasklet
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 11:14:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D0F7874.7F2B0A67@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020617.211548.63484157.davem@redhat.com
"David S. Miller" wrote:
>
> From: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 20:45:14 -0700
>
> This patch replaces the timer_bh with a tasklet.
>
> This is going to break a lot of stuff.
>
> For one thing, the net/core/dev.c:deliver_to_old_ones() code to
> disable timers no longer will work.
>
> If you had deleted TIMER_BH you would have noticed this breakage.
>
> Also, aren't there some dependencies on HI_SOFTIRQ being first in
> that enumeration? This needs to be answered before going further
> with this patch.
HI_SOFTIRQ, if I understand it right, runs the old BH code. Since most (all)
of this is going away, it would appear just the place to put the timer stuff.
TIMER_BH was first before and is still first.
--
George Anzinger george@mvista.com
High-res-timers: http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
Real time sched: http://sourceforge.net/projects/rtsched/
Preemption patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-18 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-18 3:45 [PATCH] Replace timer_bh with tasklet george anzinger
2002-06-18 4:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-18 18:07 ` george anzinger
2002-06-18 22:46 ` Richard Zidlicky
2002-06-18 23:17 ` george anzinger
2002-06-19 11:43 ` Richard Zidlicky
2002-06-18 4:15 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-18 17:01 ` george anzinger
2002-06-18 17:12 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-06-18 18:14 ` george anzinger [this message]
2002-06-18 5:16 ` kuznet
2002-06-18 18:19 ` george anzinger
2002-06-18 18:29 ` kuznet
2002-06-20 0:39 ` george anzinger
2002-06-20 1:34 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-20 1:53 ` Robert Love
2002-06-20 1:55 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-20 2:05 ` Robert Love
2002-06-20 2:01 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-20 2:15 ` Robert Love
2002-06-20 2:23 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-20 23:54 ` george anzinger
2002-06-21 1:03 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-21 14:04 ` george anzinger
2002-06-21 14:08 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-20 8:11 ` Russell King
2002-06-20 8:09 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-20 8:16 ` Russell King
2002-06-20 8:13 ` Russell King
2002-06-20 14:33 ` kuznet
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