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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace timer_bh with tasklet
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"David S. Miller" wrote:
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>    From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
>    Date: 19 Jun 2002 19:15:34 -0700
> 
>    Could there possibly be any interaction between SERIAL_BH and TIMER_BH?
> 
> Or the drivers... these are the questions that must be answered before
> we can consider the patch.
> 
> Also the TIMER_BH patch has to attend to the deliver_to_old_ones issue
> before it may be considered further.

Is the only network issue?  Is it possible that the network code uses bh_locking to protect against timers?  Moveing timers to softirqs would invalidate this sort of protection.  Is this an issue?
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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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