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From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@gamebox.net>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Run timers as softirqs, not tasklets
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 00:16:40 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021118001640.A27495@dikhow> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021117171625.C7530@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>; from willy@debian.org on Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 06:20:11PM +0100

On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 06:20:11PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> Seems to me that the timer code is attempting to replicate the softirq
> characteristics at the tasklet level, which is a little pointless.  This
> patch converts timers to be a first-class softirq citizen.
> 
> Ingo, was there a reason you didn't do it this way to begin with?
> 

I wrote that part of smptimers to run the per-CPU lists from per-CPU
tasklets while porting Ingo's code to 2.5 and Ingo just included it.
At that time, it didn't seem necessary to use up a softirq vector 
when it could be easily done using tasklets.

However it should work fine with softirqs too.

Thanks
Dipankar

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-17 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-17 17:16 [PATCH] Run timers as softirqs, not tasklets Matthew Wilcox
2002-11-17 18:46 ` Dipankar Sarma [this message]
2002-11-17 20:09   ` Ingo Molnar
2002-11-18 22:29     ` george anzinger
2002-11-18 22:34       ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-11-17 19:23 ` Ingo Molnar

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