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To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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Subject: Re: tasklets in 2.4.6
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Date: 09 Jul 2001 12:09:44 +0300
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Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> writes:

> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > The only thing that appears fishy is that if the tasklet constantly
> > reschedules itself, it will never leave the loop AFAICS.  This affects
> > tasklet_hi_action as well as tasklet_action.
> As I hacked around to fix this, I noticed Andrea's ksoftirq patch
> already fixed this.  So, I decided to look over his patch instead.

I tried that patch too, but with not so good results: The code LOOKS good to
mee too, but for some reason it still seems to stuck in looping the tasklet
code only. btw. I'm trying this on PPC, it might have something to do with
that.. :)

I'll try to hack this out :-/

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