From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
To: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
willy@debian.org, rml@mvista.com, torvalds@transmeta.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace timer_bh with tasklet
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:12:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020618181219.H9435@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D0F675F.54B87C38@mvista.com>; from george@mvista.com on Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 10:01:19AM -0700
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 10:01:19AM -0700, george anzinger wrote:
> Could you elaborate on the reason for the above bit of
> code? Is it to cover some thing from the past or is this an
> on going issue? I.e. will this disappear soon? Is its
> usage dependent on a particular driver?
The comment says:
/* Deliver skb to an old protocol, which is not threaded well
or which do not understand shared skbs.
*/
so it's nothing to do with drivers, but old protocols (like SNA, I guess).
Why did you decide to use a softirq for timers rather than a tasklet?
--
Revolutions do not require corporate support.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-18 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-18 3:45 george anzinger
2002-06-18 4:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-18 18:07 ` george anzinger
2002-06-18 22:46 ` Richard Zidlicky
2002-06-18 23:17 ` george anzinger
2002-06-19 11:43 ` Richard Zidlicky
2002-06-18 4:15 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-18 17:01 ` george anzinger
2002-06-18 17:12 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2002-06-18 18:14 ` george anzinger
2002-06-18 5:16 ` kuznet
2002-06-18 18:19 ` george anzinger
2002-06-18 18:29 ` kuznet
2002-06-20 0:39 ` george anzinger
2002-06-20 1:34 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-20 1:53 ` Robert Love
2002-06-20 1:55 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-20 2:05 ` Robert Love
2002-06-20 2:01 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-20 2:15 ` Robert Love
2002-06-20 2:23 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-20 23:54 ` george anzinger
2002-06-21 1:03 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-21 14:04 ` george anzinger
2002-06-21 14:08 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-20 8:11 ` Russell King
2002-06-20 8:09 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-20 8:16 ` Russell King
2002-06-20 8:13 ` Russell King
2002-06-20 14:33 ` kuznet
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