Re: timers in net/ipv6

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 08:05:08PM +0200, kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> > We no longer have bh protection against timers, so a timer may run
> 
> softirqs are not nested. Apparently, you mean scheme,
> which we discussed year ago. It was dropped because of utter
> complexity, only one softirq per cpu is held now.

Ok, just hope then that there is never an exception during softirq
execution (like spurious interrupt or NMI handled by an debugger) --
ret_from_exception calls the softirq.




-Andi