Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:34:15 -0400 | Subject | Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch | From | Scott Wood <> |
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On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:32:46PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > What do you think about deferring softirqs just while in critical > sections? > > I'm not sure how well this works, and it is CONFIG_PREEMPT only > but in theory it should prevent unbounded softirqs while under > locks without taking the performance hit of doing the context > switch.
You're still running do_softirq() with preemption disabled, which is almost as bad as doing it under a lock.
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