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

Matthew Wilcox (willy@debian.org)
Mon, 18 Nov 2002 22:34:45 +0000

On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 02:29:10PM -0800, george anzinger wrote:
> 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,

because then there would be no way to make a tasklet run before the timers?
turn it around. convince us that timers should run first.

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