Re: [PATCH] Replace timer_bh with tasklet

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Wed Jun 19 2002 - 20:34:32 EST


   From: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
   Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 17:39:59 -0700

   At this point I am only aware of one place in the kernel where timers and
   other BH code interact, that being deliver_to_old_ones() in net/core/dev.c.

Are you absolutely sure? What about serial drivers and the TTY layer?
Have you audited all of that code too? What about SCSI_BH? What
about IMMEDIATE_BH, TQUEUE_BH? Do they interact non-trivially with
timers too?

Alexey is right, there needs to be a real audit here before this
patch may be considered.
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