netdev - Re: question about softirqs

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Date:	Wed, 13 May 2009 15:15:34 +1000
From:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, cfriesen@...tel.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, rostedt@...dmis.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question about softirqs

David Miller writes:

> I fully expected us to be, at this point, talking about putting the
> pending softirq check back into the trap return path :-/

Would that actually do any good, in the case where the system has
decided that ksoftirqd is handling soft irqs at the moment?

Paul.
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