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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


  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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