Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Jun 2002 00:46:52 +0200 | From | Richard Zidlicky <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Replace timer_bh with tasklet |
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On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 11:07:32AM -0700, george anzinger wrote:
> > I reasoned that the timers, unlike most other I/O, directly drive the system. > For example, the time slice is counted down by the timer BH. By pushing the > timer out to ksoftirqd, running at nice 19, you open the door to a compute > bound task running over its time slice (admittedly this should be caught on > the next interrupt).
I have had some problems with timers delayed up to 0.06s in 2.4 kernels, could that be this problem?
Richard
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