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

Andi Kleen
2010-06-19T14:17:27Z

> Nope - the softirq code was written by Alexey Kuznetsov and David S. Miller.

It was based on the design of the previous bottom halves in case you
missed it. I believe BHs were there from nearly the beginning.

(softirqs were basically just per cpu bottom halves, otherwise
being very similar)

-Andi