Re: [PATCH] Replace timer_bh with tasklet

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Thu, 20 Jun 2002 18:03:58 -0700 (PDT)

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From: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 16:54:16 -0700

Is the only network issue? Is it possible that the network code
uses bh_locking to protect against timers? Moveing timers to
softirqs would invalidate this sort of protection. Is this an
issue?

It is the whole issue. We have to stop all timers while we run the
non-SMP safe protocol code.
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