Re: How is TIMER_BH called

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On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 06:17:57PM +0530, Nirranjan.K wrote:
> So is TIMER_BH not called after every timer tick  and called only after
> return of system call?

kernel 2.2 
TIMER_BH will be called after every tick 
arch/i386/kernel/irq.c

kernel 2.4
softirq will be called after every tick. 
arch/i386/kernel/irq.c
I don't know how bottom halves are implemented over softirq.

Sds,
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