Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:12:19 +0100 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Replace timer_bh with tasklet |
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On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 10:01:19AM -0700, george anzinger wrote: > Could you elaborate on the reason for the above bit of > code? Is it to cover some thing from the past or is this an > on going issue? I.e. will this disappear soon? Is its > usage dependent on a particular driver?
The comment says: /* Deliver skb to an old protocol, which is not threaded well or which do not understand shared skbs. */
so it's nothing to do with drivers, but old protocols (like SNA, I guess).
Why did you decide to use a softirq for timers rather than a tasklet?
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