Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 17 Nov 2002 21:09:08 +0100 (CET) | | From | Ingo Molnar <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Run timers as softirqs, not tasklets |
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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
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