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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