Re: softirq considered harmful

David Miller
2006-08-13T00:43:08Z

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:28:57 -0700

> Maybe I missed the discussion. But if not, this is yet another case of
> significant changes getting into mainline via a git merge and sneaking
> under everyone's radar.

Scsi has been doing command completions via a per-cpu softirq handler
for as long as we've had an SMP more advanced than lock_kernel() :-)