Re: [PATCH] Replace timer_bh with tasklet

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Mon Jun 17 2002 - 23:06:29 EST


On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, george anzinger wrote:
>
> This patch replaces the timer_bh with a tasklet. It also introduces a
> way to flag a tasklet as a must run (i.e. do NOT kick up to ksoftirqd).
>
> It make NO sense to pass timer work to a task.

I hate adding infrastructure that isn't needed.

Is there any reason why it would be _wrong_ to pass the timer work to a
task? In particular, is it really any more wrong than anything else?

I don't see that there is any difference between a timer bh and any other
BH.

                Linus

PS. Your email is also seriously whitespace-damaged, so the patch
wouldn't have worked anyway.

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