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Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 22:34:45 +0000
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
To: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@gamebox.net>,
       Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Run timers as softirqs, not tasklets
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On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 02:29:10PM -0800, george anzinger wrote:
> So then, is there any reason to not put them ahead of
> HI_SOFTIRQ?  I.e.:
> 
>  enum
>  {
>         TIMER_SOFTIRQ=0,
>  	HI_SOFTIRQ
>         NET_TX_SOFTIRQ,
>         NET_RX_SOFTIRQ,
>         SCSI_SOFTIRQ,

because then there would be no way to make a tasklet run before the timers?
turn it around.  convince us that timers should run first.

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