Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Jun 2005 20:22:29 +0300 | From | Mika Penttilä <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] local_irq_disable removal |
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Daniel Walker wrote:
>On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, [UTF-8] Mika Penttilä wrote: > > >>The timer irq is run as NODELAY, so soft irqs are run against >>local_irq_disable sections all the time. >> >> > >Softirq's are run in threads . The wake_up_process() path is protected, >and used by the timer interrupt . > > >Daniel > > > > Not with !softirq_preemption, then we take the immediate path and process soft irqs on irq exit.
--Mika
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