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

[Ingo Molnar]

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Dipankar Sarma wrote:

> 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.

i think a separate timer softirq is justified, timers are important
enough.

	Ingo