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From: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: rml@tech9.net, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace timer_bh with tasklet
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 16:54:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D126B28.16C88E2B@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020619.192342.128398093.davem@redhat.com

"David S. Miller" wrote:
> 
>    From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
>    Date: 19 Jun 2002 19:15:34 -0700
> 
>    Could there possibly be any interaction between SERIAL_BH and TIMER_BH?
> 
> Or the drivers... these are the questions that must be answered before
> we can consider the patch.
> 
> Also the TIMER_BH patch has to attend to the deliver_to_old_ones issue
> before it may be considered further.

Is the only network issue?  Is it possible that the network code uses bh_locking to protect against timers?  Moveing timers to softirqs would invalidate this sort of protection.  Is this an issue?
-- 
George Anzinger   george@mvista.com
High-res-timers:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
Real time sched:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/rtsched/
Preemption patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml

  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-20 23:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-18  3:45 [PATCH] Replace timer_bh with tasklet george anzinger
2002-06-18  4:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-18 18:07   ` george anzinger
2002-06-18 22:46     ` Richard Zidlicky
2002-06-18 23:17       ` george anzinger
2002-06-19 11:43         ` Richard Zidlicky
2002-06-18  4:15 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-18 17:01   ` george anzinger
2002-06-18 17:12     ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-06-18 18:14   ` george anzinger
2002-06-18  5:16 ` kuznet
2002-06-18 18:19   ` george anzinger
2002-06-18 18:29     ` kuznet
2002-06-20  0:39       ` george anzinger
2002-06-20  1:34         ` David S. Miller
2002-06-20  1:53           ` Robert Love
2002-06-20  1:55             ` David S. Miller
2002-06-20  2:05               ` Robert Love
2002-06-20  2:01                 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-20  2:15                   ` Robert Love
2002-06-20  2:23                     ` David S. Miller
2002-06-20 23:54                       ` george anzinger [this message]
2002-06-21  1:03                         ` David S. Miller
2002-06-21 14:04                           ` george anzinger
2002-06-21 14:08                             ` David S. Miller
2002-06-20  8:11               ` Russell King
2002-06-20  8:09                 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-20  8:16                   ` Russell King
2002-06-20  8:13               ` Russell King
2002-06-20 14:33             ` kuznet

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