Re: [RFC PATCH 1/6] Convert the RCU tasklet into a softirq

On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 12:00:15AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> I believe this was originally done by Dipankar Sarma. I pulled these
> changes from the -rt kernel.
> 
> For better preformance, RCU should use a softirq instead of a
> tasklet.

I was under the imporession we had merged this a while ago due to
tasklet bottlenecks on big machines.  Any reason why it has been delayed
so long?
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