On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 14:26 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

Following Dipankar's lead, I converted the tasklet in rcupreempt.c into
a softirq.

I've compiled and booted with this patch, but ran no other tests.

There might still be an issue here. With the patch I'm getting a really
slow response time on networking. But that be because of other patches I
have applied.

I'll remove those other patches and see if this is still an issue.

/me booting with noapic to avoid the IO APIC issues.

-- Steve