On 22 Sep 2004 03:37:09 -0000, sanjayk <tousanjay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If we have made a call to local_irq_disable, does the processor ignores "timer interrupt" as well i.e is timer interrupt a maskable interrupt. All interrupts are maskable except for NMI and these only tend to occur on Intel when really interestingly bad things happen (hence the non-maskable nature). If you leave interrupts off for a while then the kernel will need to catch up with its timers and timer tick related stuff on the next time we go around and get another timer interrupt (frequency varies by arch/platform). Jon. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
