Re: [RFC 1/3] Unified NMI delayed call mechanism

Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-18T15:31:25Z

On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 23:16 +0800, huang ying wrote:
>
> soft_irq is a delayed mechanism for IRQ,

No its not.

> a self interrupt can be a
> delayed mechanism for NMI. If we can make soft_irq NMI-safe,

No you can't.

> we can
> use soft_irq as a backup of self interrupt (for systems without APIC
> and maybe for other architectures).

Whatever would you want to do that for.