From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: [PATCH 0/2]: Convert packet scheduler hrtimers to tasklet_hrtimer Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:03:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20090821.170329.163431377.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: tglx@linutronix.de To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:46043 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755598AbZHVADR (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:03:17 -0400 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: tasklet_hrtimers were created as a response to how we noticed that we had hrtimers but they expected to run in softirq context but actually hrtimers run in hw IRQ context This converts the two hrtimers in the packet scheduler over to be tasklet_hrtimers. The CAN protocol has a few hrtimers, but they fire off tasklets to do softirq work. So they're OK. So after this we should be clean in the networking.