Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:03:42 -0800 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: interrupt ? |
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On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 12:07:37PM -0500, Robert Love wrote: > On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 20:18, McEnroe wrote: > > > what is fast and slow interrupt ? > > what is the difference between this ? > > fast interrupts occur with interrupts disabled, and are expected to be > completed quickly -- they are performed by the interrupt handlers > themselves. > > a slow interrupt occurs with interrupts enabled, such as bottom half > tasks. >
IIRC, bottom half is mostly used by network packet processing. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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