A question about the softirq implementation in DDE Linux26

[Dirk Vogt]

On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 22:08 +0800, Da Zheng wrote:
> In Linux local_irq_save() disables irqs in the local processor, so if
> the hard
> IRQ handler tries to raise softirq, it is guaranteed that the softirq
> thread
> will not be scheduled to run, and vice versa. How would that work on a
> SMP machine? 

Correct me if I am wrong, but i think even on native Linux the hard IRQ
handler and the soft IRQ handler could run on the same time (on two
different processors) as only *local* interrupts are disabled. 

> [...] 2.3.43 introduced softirqs, and re-implemented the (now
> deprecated) BHs underneath them. Softirqs are fully-SMP versions of
> BHs: they can  run on as many CPUs at once as required. This means
> they need to deal with any races in shared data using their own locks.
> [...]

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