Re: [PATCH] [IMPORTANT] Re: 2.4.7 softirq incorrectness.

kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Sun, 29 Jul 2001 21:52:11 +0400 (MSK DST)


Hello!

> I think the latency issue was really the fact that we weren't always
> running softirqs in a timely fashion after they had been disabled by a
> "disable_bh()". That is fixed with the new softirq stuff, regardless of
> the other issues.

I hope too. Actually, this observation was main argument pro ksoftirqd
and against instant restart. Ingo objected but finally the issue was buried...
or I lost discussion not reading maillists for some time.

Alexey
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