From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: george@mvista.com, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace timer_bh with tasklet
Date: 19 Jun 2002 18:53:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1024538005.922.70.camel@sinai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020619.183432.27032473.davem@redhat.com>
On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 18:34, David S. Miller wrote:
> Are you absolutely sure? What about serial drivers and the TTY layer?
> Have you audited all of that code too? What about SCSI_BH? What
> about IMMEDIATE_BH, TQUEUE_BH? Do they interact non-trivially with
> timers too?
SCSH_BH is gone in 2.5.23. Matthew Wilcox has a patch to remove
IMMEDIATE_BH.
TIMER_BH is the only BH left as far as I know.
So the needed synchronization, if any, is against the other softirqs.
Robert Love
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-20 1:53 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
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 [this message]
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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