netdev - Re: Linux 3.0 release

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Date:	Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:35:16 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>,
	David <david@...olicited.net>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 3.0 release

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Stephen Hemminger
<shemminger@...tta.com> wrote:
>
> The workqueue code should have a fallback and not try and
> do anything if being called from IRQ.

Fair enough. Especially since one of the *points* of workqueues is
indeed to schedule stuff from irqs and that cannot be done
immediately.

Tejun?

                  Linus
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