On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 08:27:48PM -0800, Wayne Yen wrote: > While the bottom half (implemented via tasklet) of an interrupt > handler is executing, can another bottom half (similarly implemented > via tasklet) of another interrupt handler starts execute. My > assumption is no. The ultimate question, then, is that what is the > advantage of implementing tasklet to handle the bottom half over the > old bottom half implementation? IIRC botomhlaves are hardcoded and activated by seting bits in a 32-bit bitfield. While tasklets are enabled by puting a pointer in a list and thus their number is not limited. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
