Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 May 2001 19:12:49 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [patch] softirq-2.4.5-A1 |
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On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 09:33:59PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > interrupts disabled, otherwise we can end up getting another softirq > right after the test. (and this causes a missed softirq.)
an irq that could mark the softirq active under entry.S will also run do_softirq itself before iret to entry.S. If the softirq remains active after an irq it it because it was marked active again under do_softirq and ksoftirq is the way to go for fixing that case I think.
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