Re: [PATCH] Use tty_schedule in VT code.

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Paul Fulghum wrote:
> 
> The scheduling is to move the processing out of interrupt context.
> The receive data is often extracted from the hardware
> at interrupt time and then queued for processing.

You misunderstand.

If the "delay" is zero, then why are you using "delayed" workqueues at 
all?

A delay of zero tends to be pointless. It's not a delay at all, and you 
could just use the regular NON-DELAYING workqueues.

		Linus
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