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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace timer_bh with tasklet
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"David S. Miller" wrote:
> 
>    From: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
>    Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 20:45:14 -0700
> 
>    This patch replaces the timer_bh with a tasklet.
> 
> This is going to break a lot of stuff.
> 
> For one thing, the net/core/dev.c:deliver_to_old_ones() code to
> disable timers no longer will work.
> 
> If you had deleted TIMER_BH you would have noticed this breakage.
> 
> Also, aren't there some dependencies on HI_SOFTIRQ being first in
> that enumeration?  This needs to be answered before going further
> with this patch.

HI_SOFTIRQ, if I understand it right, runs the old BH code.  Since most (all)
of this is going away, it would appear just the place to put the timer stuff.
TIMER_BH was first before and is still first.  


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George Anzinger   george@mvista.com
High-res-timers:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
Real time sched:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/rtsched/
Preemption patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml
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