Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Feb 1999 18:21:22 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Concurrent bottom halves |
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On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, B. James Phillippe wrote:
>Greetings, > >Is it possible in Linux-2.2 for a driver to mark a bottom half from within >a bottom half and have them execute concurrently? I would like to mark a >bottom half (tq_immediate) from code executing in net_bh, and have the new >bottom half executing concurrently with net_bh.
That's impossible. The main feature of bh handler is that they run _always_ serialized in respect of themself.
Andrea Arcangeli
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