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From: Andi Kleen on 19 Jun 2010 10:20
> Nope - the softirq code was written by Alexey Kuznetsov and David S. Miller.

It was based on the design of the previous bottom halves in case you
missed it. I believe BHs were there from nearly the beginning.

(softirqs were basically just per cpu bottom halves, otherwise
being very similar)

-Andi
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From: Andi Kleen on 19 Jun 2010 10:30
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:53:52PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> ( Ugh: what's this new fad of you not quoting the name of the person who
> wrote a mail? It makes multi-level quotes utterly unreadable as it's not
> clear who wrote what. You should also respect others by quoting their names. )

To give you an excuse to flame of course. I know that's
your favourite pastime and I'm always happy to make you happy.

>
> Abusing the timer irq for that is an exceedingly ugly and unacceptable design,
> as machine check events have nothing to do with timers. (That approach is also
The rationale is that this nearly never happens in practice anyways
(the operations that trigger it do near always only happen with APICs)
AFAIK that's true for all the proposed users.

For very rare and obscure cases like this in my experience
the simplest possible code is the best,
that makes it most likely it actually works when it's needed.
I do not know of any simpler way to implement this.

Of course if there's evidence it's actually common that would
need to be revisited.

-Andi
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