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    SubjectRe: Today Linus redesigns the networking driver interface (was Re: tulip driver in ...)


    On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:
    >
    > I don't understand why selectively marking/not marking a BH doesn't
    > give you what you want.

    The problem with not marking the BH is that there would be no timeout.

    In contrast, marking the BH but asking the interrupt return code not to do
    BH processing will still guarantee that the BH gets processed eventually
    anyway: at the latest during the next timer tick, but possibly long before
    that if we're idle.

    Linus


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