Re: [RFC] Rename _bh to _softirq

Maksim (maxk@qualcomm.com)
Mon, 14 Oct 2002 13:05:26 -0700


At 03:12 PM 10/14/2002 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>Maksim (Max) Krasnyanskiy wrote:
>>Hi Folks,
>>Old BHs have been almost completely replaced with tasklets and softirqs.
>
>In 2.5? They have been replaced by work queues...
>though in some cases manual conversion to tasklets is more appropriate.
Task queues were replaced with work queues. I'm taking about things like
NET_BH, TIMER_BH, etc.
In general what's been called "bottom half" is now referred to as "softirq".

Max

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