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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 00:46:52 +0200
From: Richard Zidlicky 
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To: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace timer_bh with tasklet
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On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 11:07:32AM -0700, george anzinger wrote:

> 
> I reasoned that the timers, unlike most other I/O, directly drive the system.  
> For example, the time slice is counted down by the timer BH.  By pushing the 
> timer out to ksoftirqd, running at nice 19, you open the door to a compute 
> bound task running over its time slice (admittedly this should be caught on 
> the next interrupt).

I have had some problems with timers delayed up to 0.06s in 2.4 kernels,
could that be this problem?

Richard


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