Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:37:49 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>,
       "H.PeterA" <"nvin hpa"@zytor.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/3] Unified NMI delayed call mechanism
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* Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:

> > So aside from the should this be perf or not, the above is utter
> > gibberish. Whoever came up with this nonsense?
> 
> This is pretty much how softirqs (and before them bottom halves) work.
> I believe Linus invented that scheme originally back in the early
> days of Linux.

Nope - the softirq code was written by Alexey Kuznetsov and David S. Miller. 
But it's irrelevant, because:

> It's actually quite simple and works well

... as Peter said the last thing we want is yet another softirq vector.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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