Re: tasklets in 2.4.6

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Fri, 06 Jul 2001 08:07:01 -0400


Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 04:25:49AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Why does tasklet_trylock go away?
>
> because the logic is different, that's perfectly ok. In short when irq
> are enabled and the TASKLET_STATE_SCHED bit is set, then the tasklet is
> also queued. That's the old cleaner and not buggy logic implemented by
> Alexey originally, it fixes the missed tasklet event in the other case
> mentioned in the other email. It is also more efficient.

nice :)

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