Hi Till > What *is* the recommended mechanism to wake up a thread from > a hard-isr? I think its the waitqueue mechanism with the drawbacks you mentioned. If you only want to wake up *one* usermode thread there is a hack possible to save the context switch times to the bottom half interrupt thread? Best regards Tim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html