Re: Task Queue Imediate Bottom Halfs question.

Hi,

This free book from Oreilly might also help you:

http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/index.html

Regards,

-- Rodney


On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Michel Lanners wrote:

On  19 Aug, this message from Ira Weiny echoed through cyberspace:

quoted

So, my question is, why use a bottom half here?  Or really what is the
difference between scheduling a task queue (tasklet) imediate vs just
running the code in the IRQ handler?

Have a look at Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl.

It explains some of these things quite well, I think.

Michel

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