Re: + sched-use-tasklet-to-call-balancing.patch added to -mm tree

[Ingo Molnar]

* Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
> 
> > Christoph, DECLARE_TASKLET that you had atleast needs to be per 
> > cpu.. Not sure if there are any other concerns.
> 
> Nope. Tasklets scheduled and executed per cpu. These are the former 
> bottom halves. See tasklet_schedule in kernel/softirq.c

no, they are "task"-lets. Softirqs are the equivalent of former 
bottom-halves.

a tasklet may run on any CPU but its execution is globally serialized - 
it's not what we want to do in the scheduler.

	Ingo
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