Re: [PATCH -tip -v5] irq_work: generic hard-irq context callbacks

[Paul Mackerras]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:13:01AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 14:20 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > Actually these days we do it by setting the decrementer (the built-in
> > timer facility) to generate an interrupt immediately (well, within one
> > timebase tick, i.e. a small number of nanoseconds).
> 
> Then that is something that wants curing I guess.. 

Curing?  Why?  How?

Paul.
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