Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 13:45:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 13:45:52 -0500 Received: from mx1.elte.hu ([157.181.1.137]:24494 "HELO mx1.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 13:45:51 -0500 Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 21:09:08 +0100 (CET) From: Ingo Molnar Reply-To: Ingo Molnar To: Dipankar Sarma Cc: Matthew Wilcox , Subject: Re: [PATCH] Run timers as softirqs, not tasklets In-Reply-To: <20021118001640.A27495@dikhow> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 631 Lines: 18 On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Dipankar Sarma wrote: > I wrote that part of smptimers to run the per-CPU lists from per-CPU > tasklets while porting Ingo's code to 2.5 and Ingo just included it. At > that time, it didn't seem necessary to use up a softirq vector when it > could be easily done using tasklets. i think a separate timer softirq is justified, timers are important enough. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/