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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Separate IRQ-stacks from 4K-stacks option
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
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On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 02:16, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> For servers and normal desktops the current IRQ and softirq
> model is pretty OK.
> 

Agreed.  I was just pointing out that it's not safe to assume that all
hardirq handlers execute quickly.  This doesn't seem to be a problem for
normal workloads.

Lee

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