Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756075Ab0FSOR1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:17:27 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:45800 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755978Ab0FSOR0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:17:26 -0400 Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:17:24 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andi Kleen , Peter Zijlstra , Huang Ying , "H.PeterA" <"nvin hpa"@zytor.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chris Mason Subject: Re: [RFC 1/3] Unified NMI delayed call mechanism Message-ID: <20100619141724.GN18946@basil.fritz.box> References: <1276334896-7075-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com> <1276862130.1875.7.camel@laptop> <20100618122532.GB9045@basil.fritz.box> <20100618143749.GA14034@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100618143749.GA14034@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 549 Lines: 14 > Nope - the softirq code was written by Alexey Kuznetsov and David S. Miller. It was based on the design of the previous bottom halves in case you missed it. I believe BHs were there from nearly the beginning. (softirqs were basically just per cpu bottom halves, otherwise being very similar) -Andi -- 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/