linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/3] net: serialize hrtimer callback in sched

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Message-Id: <1248244184.27058.992.camel@twins>
Date:	Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:29:44 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kaber@...sh.net
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] net: serialize hrtimer callback in sched_cbq

On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 20:18 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:14:52 +0200
> 
> > On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 09:42 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >> 
> >> On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >> > 
> >> > Linus really hated the softirq mode, which is what prompted me to change
> >> > that.
> >> > 
> >> > Now, it might be he only hated the particular interface and the
> >> > resulting code, but I think to remember he simply thought the whole
> >> > thing daft.
> >> 
> >> Yes. And I hated the bugs it had. 
> >> 
> >> Don't make something as core as timers any more complicated. Don't take 
> >> locks in timers and then complain about deadlocks. If your locking is 
> >> broken, don't make the core timers be idiotically broken.
> >> 
> >> Because it was. The code was a total mess to follow, and had bugs.
> > 
> > How would something like the below work for people?
> 
> I like it, but like Linus said it probably belongs in
> kernel/softirq.c

Right, I meant to rework it, but stuff kept preempting me. I'll try and
get around to it today :-)
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