On Tuesday 01 March 2005 03:02 pm, Devesh Agrawal wrote: > Hi, > I noticed that there are four/five softirq's defined in > kernel/softirq.c, How can I know which softirq am I called from, if at > all I am called from a softirq. I tried using in_softirq, but that > gives me the current->preempt_count, which is something like 256 or > 1024. Where I just want to know of the NET_TX_SOFTIRQ, TIMER_SOFTIRQ, > NET_RX_SOFTIRQ, which one am I called from. > Thanks in advance. I think that you can't. But why would you like to know? Surely your goal can be accomplished in other ways... tavi -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/