Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Dipankar Sarma wrote:
>
> > I wrote that part of smptimers to run the per-CPU lists from per-CPU
> > tasklets while porting Ingo's code to 2.5 and Ingo just included it. At
> > that time, it didn't seem necessary to use up a softirq vector when it
> > could be easily done using tasklets.
>
> i think a separate timer softirq is justified, timers are important
> enough.
>
> Ingo
>
So then, is there any reason to not put them ahead of
HI_SOFTIRQ? I.e.:
enum
{
TIMER_SOFTIRQ=0,
HI_SOFTIRQ
NET_TX_SOFTIRQ,
NET_RX_SOFTIRQ,
SCSI_SOFTIRQ,
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