Re: [RFC 1/3] Unified NMI delayed call mechanism

[Andi Kleen]

> So aside from the should this be perf or not, the above is utter
> gibberish. Whoever came up with this nonsense?

This is pretty much how softirqs (and before them bottom halves) work.
I believe Linus invented that scheme originally back in the early
days of Linux.

It's actually quite simple and works well

-Andi
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