Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Sep 1998 17:00:32 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Today Linus redesigns the networking driver interface (was Re: tulip driver in ...) |
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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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