Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932439AbWHMAnI (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:43:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932621AbWHMAnI (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:43:08 -0400 Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:50644 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932439AbWHMAnH (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:43:07 -0400 Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:43:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20060812.174324.77324010.davem@davemloft.net> To: akpm@osdl.org Cc: axboe@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: softirq considered harmful From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20060812162857.d85632b9.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20060810110627.GM11829@suse.de> <20060812162857.d85632b9.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 632 Lines: 14 From: Andrew Morton Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:28:57 -0700 > Maybe I missed the discussion. But if not, this is yet another case of > significant changes getting into mainline via a git merge and sneaking > under everyone's radar. Scsi has been doing command completions via a per-cpu softirq handler for as long as we've had an SMP more advanced than lock_kernel() :-) - 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/