Re: [PATCH] local_irq_disable removal

Mika Penttilä
2005-06-11T17:21:17Z

Daniel Walker wrote:

>On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, [UTF-8] Mika Penttilä wrote:
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>>The timer irq is run as NODELAY, so soft irqs are run against
>>local_irq_disable sections all the time.
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>Softirq's are run in threads . The wake_up_process() path is protected,
>and used by the timer interrupt .
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>Daniel
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Not with !softirq_preemption, then we take the immediate path and
process soft irqs on irq exit.

--Mika