Re: [PATCH] local_irq_disable removal

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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