Messages in this thread | | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: Today Linus redesigns the networking driver interface (was Re: tulip driver in ...) | Date | Tue, 22 Sep 1998 23:16:13 +1000 |
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On Tue, 22 Sep 1998 21:01:34 +1000, Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au> wrote: >> On Tue, 22 Sep 1998 17:27:36 +1000, >> Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au> wrote: >> >The simple rule: "if you haven't registered/marked active a BH, then ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> >you aren't going to trigger BH processing, so don't worry about it" >> >seems like the right thing. > >Eh? do_bottom_half() will run *any* BH that is marked. So what's the >problem? Anything that registers a BH will of course have to mark it: >that's the whole point.
Original suggestion implied that the interrupt handler would *not* mark_bh() in all cases. Source of confusion :( found.
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