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From: Richard Zidlicky  <Richard.Zidlicky@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
To: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace timer_bh with tasklet
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 00:46:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020619004652.D2079@linux-m68k.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D0F76E4.AC6EA257@mvista.com>; from george@mvista.com on Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 11:07:32AM -0700

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 11:07:32AM -0700, george anzinger wrote:

> 
> I reasoned that the timers, unlike most other I/O, directly drive the system.  
> For example, the time slice is counted down by the timer BH.  By pushing the 
> timer out to ksoftirqd, running at nice 19, you open the door to a compute 
> bound task running over its time slice (admittedly this should be caught on 
> the next interrupt).

I have had some problems with timers delayed up to 0.06s in 2.4 kernels,
could that be this problem?

Richard



  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-18 23:07 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 [this message]
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
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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