> Hmm... there are some ugly hoops there to make sure that they
> don't conflict with bottom halves or cli(). I assume you want to take
> that out: what will break if that happens, and do we need a
> disable_timers() interface to move code over?
hm, those ugly hoops are really limited in scope - they cause no
scalability or other visible performance impact. So i thought we do the
threading first (and *just* the threading), then we might change the timer
interface. But that is a *huge* task.
Ingo
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