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

Andi Kleen
2010-06-18T12:25:43Z

> So aside from the should this be perf or not, the above is utter
> gibberish. Whoever came up with this nonsense?

This is pretty much how softirqs (and before them bottom halves) work.
I believe Linus invented that scheme originally back in the early
days of Linux.

It's actually quite simple and works well

-Andi