Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:01:28 -0500 (EST) | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] 2.6.15-rc5-hrt2 - hrtimers based high resolution patches |
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On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > > So the fix to this, in the case of preempting the softirq, that we need > > to introduce some wait queue that will allow processes to wait for the > > softirq to finish, and then the softirq will wake up all the processes. > > We had the waitqueue in the ktimer based -rt patches and did not add it > back. >
Actually, to save on the memory, I was thinking of a general purpose wait queue, that is either one for all softirqs, or one for each particular softirq, that the softirq handler would wakeup when finished.
Thoughts?
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