Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Dec 1999 10:34:54 -0500 (EST) | From | William Montgomery <> | Subject | Re: timer_bh behaviour incorrect for 2.2.13? |
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On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > there is one race here that is subtle: if a bottom-half is marked _while_ > do_bottom_half is executing, then do_bottom_half might not notice this, > and we miss the event. > I will try your patch but it seems unlikely since run_bottom_halves is protected by __sti(); / __cli();. Since interrupts are disabled I dont see how a timer IRQ could occur while run_bottom_halves is executing.
Sounds like Andrea also has some idea about what might be happening.
Wm
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