Re: 2.5.27: do_softirq

[Ingo Molnar]

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, george anzinger wrote:

> > This is the output of readprofile | sort -nr:
> > It shows too much calls to do_softirq ( i don't know what it means but i
> > hope it can help)
> >
> Maybe _local_bh_enable() should check to see if the call is needed
> before it calls....

it does in Linus' latest BK tree, which can also be downloaded from:

  http://redhat.com/~mingo/irqlock-removal-patches/diff-bk-020723-2.5.27.bz2

(patch against 2.5.27-vanilla.) It includes all the irqlock related
patches.

	Ingo