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
next prev parent 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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