Re: [PATCH] Run timers as softirqs, not tasklets

[Dipankar Sarma]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 06:20:11PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> Seems to me that the timer code is attempting to replicate the softirq
> characteristics at the tasklet level, which is a little pointless.  This
> patch converts timers to be a first-class softirq citizen.
> 
> Ingo, was there a reason you didn't do it this way to begin with?
> 

I wrote that part of smptimers to run the per-CPU lists from per-CPU
tasklets while porting Ingo's code to 2.5 and Ingo just included it.
At that time, it didn't seem necessary to use up a softirq vector 
when it could be easily done using tasklets.

However it should work fine with softirqs too.

Thanks
Dipankar