From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de>
To: dipankar@in.ibm.com (Dipankar Sarma)
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Ingo's smptimers patch experiment
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:27:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200202061727.g16HRkG12893@ns.caldera.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020206211925.A8720@in.ibm.com>
In article <20020206211925.A8720@in.ibm.com> you wrote:
> Hi Ingo,
>
> I ported your smptimers patch to 2.5.3 and experimented with
> it a little bit. Basically I am curious about why we
> we need to call run_all_timers() (which runs timers for all
> CPUs) through the timer bh if locking fails in run_local_timers().
Some driver do ugly things with TIMER_BH, and Ingo's 2.4 patched
tried to stayed source compatible with 2.4 drivers.
For 2.5 I'd really like to see TIMER_BH (all BH's in fact) to gone.
Christoph
--
Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-06 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-06 15:49 Dipankar Sarma
2002-02-06 17:27 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-02-07 6:14 ` Dipankar Sarma
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