Re: tasklet latency and system calls on mips

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On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 06:29:52PM +0300, Sirotkin, Alexander wrote:
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> 
> 
> The tasklet should be executed at the return of interrupt handling.
> 
> If not, there is a bug.
> 
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> 
> I have a feeling that we are going in circles. Tasklets are executed at
> the return of interrupt handler.
> However, I suspect that this is not enough. 

If you follow this, plus "tasklet_schedule() is indeed called in an interrupt
handler", you will should see "executing tasklet at the return of interrupt
handler"  is _obviously_ enough.

> On mips (contrary to x86),
> system call is NOT an interrupt.
> It's a different exception with different handler. Therefore I suspect
> that tasklets are NOT called at 
> the end of system call exception handler (which is a different handler,
> not do_IRQ).
>

... which is fine, if you can follow the above logic.

Jun


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