The problem with not marking the BH is that there would be no timeout.
In contrast, marking the BH but asking the interrupt return code not to do
BH processing will still guarantee that the BH gets processed eventually
anyway: at the latest during the next timer tick, but possibly long before
that if we're idle.
Linus
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