On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 07:30:53PM +0530, Nirranjan.K wrote: > > I read that Bottom halves are called only at the end of slow interrupts not > after fast interrupts. Timer tick is a fast interrupt(SA_INTERRUPT - set). > Then how is TIMER_BH called ? Please clarify. do_timer() enable TIMER_BH to run when you finish some system call, handle an exception, terminate do_IRQ() or called schedule(). -- Flávio Bruno Leitner http://fly.to/fbl Conectiva Linux http://www.conectiva.com.br/ - Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
