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

[george anzinger]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
So then, is there any reason to not put them ahead of
HI_SOFTIRQ?  I.e.:

 enum
 {
        TIMER_SOFTIRQ=0,
      	HI_SOFTIRQ
        NET_TX_SOFTIRQ,
        NET_RX_SOFTIRQ,
        SCSI_SOFTIRQ,
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