Re: [RFC][PATCH] Ingo's smptimers patch experiment

Christoph Hellwig (hch@ns.caldera.de)
Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:27:46 +0100

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.
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