Re: timer_bh behaviour incorrect for 2.2.13?

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Thu, 9 Dec 1999 20:04:53 +0100 (CET)


On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

>On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, William Montgomery wrote:
>
>>
>>I am having a difficult time with the patch to run_bottom_halves.
>>I have the following:
>> bh = bh_base;
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ remove
>> while ((active = get_active_bhs())) {
>> __sti();
>> clear_active_bhs(active);
> bh = bh_base;
> ^^^^^^^^^^^ insert
>> do {
>> if (active & 1)
>> (*bh)();
>> bh++;
>> active >>= 1;
>> } while (active);
>> __cli();
>> }
>
>Move `bh = bh_base' before the do { } while loop.

Forget to tell the result will won't risk to miss bh only for UP, but
that's fine for testing of course ;).

Andrea

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