On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:28:13 -0600 Olof Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I noticed this when looking at an openswan issue. Openswan (ab?)uses > the tasklet API to defer processing of packets in some situations, > with one packet per tasklet_action(). I started noticing sequences of > reverse-ordered sequence numbers coming over the wire, since new tasklets > are always queued at the head of the list but processed sequentially. > > Convert it to instead append new entries to the tail of the list. As an > extra bonus, the splicing code in takeover_tasklets() no longer has to > iterate over the list. kernel/softirq.c: In function 'takeover_tasklets': kernel/softirq.c:597: error: 'struct tasklet_head' has no member named 'next' kernel/softirq.c:603: error: 'struct tasklet_head' has no member named 'next' kernel/softirq.c:588: warning: unused variable 'i' -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
