Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] irq_work | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:18:07 +0200 |
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On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 14:02 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 01:57:29PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 13:55 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > but we don't have anything else that does that. > > > > > > Actually we do, audit in syscalls and scheduling in interrupts and signals > > > all work this way. Probably more at some point adding more code to this > > > path was very popular. > > > > That's the return to user path, nothing to do with softirqs. Add a TIF > > flag and call your function there. > > It does that, but there are some cases where it's not enough.
care to expand on that?
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