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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: george@mvista.com
Cc: rml@tech9.net, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace timer_bh with tasklet
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 07:08:28 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020621.070828.112704404.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D13326C.E2383356@mvista.com>

   From: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
   Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 07:04:28 -0700

   "David S. Miller" wrote:
   > It is the whole issue.  We have to stop all timers while we run the
   > non-SMP safe protocol code.
   
   Thanks.  I think this can be done much the same way it is now.  I
   will modify the patch accordingly.
   
Thanks, now what about every piece of code doing cli() and expects
timers not to run because of that?  Are you going to audit all of that
too?

I think you still have no idea at all how much breakage you're going
to cause nor how much work is necessary to fix that.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-21 14:14 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
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 [this message]
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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