Re: [PATCH] local_irq_disable removal

Daniel Walker
2005-06-11T17:13:47Z

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On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, [UTF-8] Mika Penttilä wrote:
> The timer irq is run as NODELAY, so soft irqs are run against
> local_irq_disable sections all the time.

Softirq's are run in threads . The wake_up_process() path is protected,
and used by the timer interrupt .

Daniel