From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 00:20:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 00:20:57 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:8606 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 00:20:56 -0400 Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 21:15:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20020617.211548.63484157.davem@redhat.com> To: george@mvista.com Cc: willy@debian.org, rml@mvista.com, torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace timer_bh with tasklet From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <3D0EACCA.3290139@mvista.com> References: <3D0EACCA.3290139@mvista.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: george anzinger 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.