On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 06:16:45 +0100 Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe the networking > stack would break if we allowed the TIMER softirq (thread) to preempt > the NET softirq (threads) (and vice versa)? The major assumption is that softirq's run indivisibly per-cpu. Otherwise the per-cpu queues of RX and TX packet work would get corrupted. See net/core/dev.c:softnet_data - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
