Re: [PATCH] local_irq_disable removal

[Mika Penttilä]

Daniel Walker wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, [UTF-8] Mika Penttilä wrote:
>  
>
> > The timer irq is run as NODELAY, so soft irqs are run against 
> > local_irq_disable sections all the time.
> >    
>
> Softirq's are run in threads . The wake_up_process() path is protected,
> and used by the timer interrupt .
>
>
> Daniel
>
>
>  
Not with !softirq_preemption, then we take the immediate path and 
process soft irqs on irq exit.

--Mika


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