Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:27:46 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] Ingo's smptimers patch experiment |
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In article <20020206211925.A8720@in.ibm.com> you wrote: > Hi Ingo, > > I ported your smptimers patch to 2.5.3 and experimented with > it a little bit. Basically I am curious about why we > we need to call run_all_timers() (which runs timers for all > CPUs) through the timer bh if locking fails in run_local_timers().
Some driver do ugly things with TIMER_BH, and Ingo's 2.4 patched tried to stayed source compatible with 2.4 drivers.
For 2.5 I'd really like to see TIMER_BH (all BH's in fact) to gone.
Christoph
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