Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Jun 2002 07:08:28 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Replace timer_bh with tasklet | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: george anzinger <george@mvista.com> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 07:04:28 -0700
"David S. Miller" wrote: > It is the whole issue. We have to stop all timers while we run the > non-SMP safe protocol code. Thanks. I think this can be done much the same way it is now. I will modify the patch accordingly. Thanks, now what about every piece of code doing cli() and expects timers not to run because of that? Are you going to audit all of that too?
I think you still have no idea at all how much breakage you're going to cause nor how much work is necessary to fix that. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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