Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Jun 2002 21:06:29 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Replace timer_bh with tasklet |
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On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, george anzinger wrote: > > This patch replaces the timer_bh with a tasklet. It also introduces a > way to flag a tasklet as a must run (i.e. do NOT kick up to ksoftirqd). > > It make NO sense to pass timer work to a task.
I hate adding infrastructure that isn't needed.
Is there any reason why it would be _wrong_ to pass the timer work to a task? In particular, is it really any more wrong than anything else?
I don't see that there is any difference between a timer bh and any other BH.
Linus
PS. Your email is also seriously whitespace-damaged, so the patch wouldn't have worked anyway.
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