Re: [PATCH] Replace timer_bh with tasklet

Matthew Wilcox (willy@debian.org)
Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:12:19 +0100

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?

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