Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Nov 2006 21:29:43 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: + sched-use-tasklet-to-call-balancing.patch added to -mm tree |
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* Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Siddha, Suresh B wrote: > > > Christoph, DECLARE_TASKLET that you had atleast needs to be per > > cpu.. Not sure if there are any other concerns. > > Nope. Tasklets scheduled and executed per cpu. These are the former > bottom halves. See tasklet_schedule in kernel/softirq.c
no, they are "task"-lets. Softirqs are the equivalent of former bottom-halves.
a tasklet may run on any CPU but its execution is globally serialized - it's not what we want to do in the scheduler.
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