Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] latency tracer, 2.6.15-rc7 | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Sun, 01 Jan 2006 14:02:07 -0500 |
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On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 10:56 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > The thing is, "maxbatch" doesn't actually _work_ because what happens > is that the tasklet will continually re-schedule itself, and the > caller will keep calling it. So maxbatch is actually broken. > > However, what happens is that after kernel/softirq.c has called the > tasklet ten times, and it is still pending, it will do the softirq in > a thread (see the "max_restart" logic).
Ah OK thanks for the explanation. I'll try Paul's patch (yours did not seem to help).
Lee
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