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

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 23:16 +0800, huang ying wrote:
> 
> soft_irq is a delayed mechanism for IRQ,

No its not.

>  a self interrupt can be a
> delayed mechanism for NMI. If we can make soft_irq NMI-safe, 

No you can't.

> we can
> use soft_irq as a backup of self interrupt (for systems without APIC
> and maybe for other architectures). 

Whatever would you want to do that for.
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