Re: Whether Bottom Halves run in Process context ?

[Bernhard Walle <bernhard.walle@xxxxxx>]

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Hello,

"srinivas bakki" <srinivas.bakki@xxxxxxxxx> [2006-08-18]:
>   After linux 2.6 i always thought that bottom halves run in the context of
> > a kernel thread. The in_interrupt doesnt seem to show that its in the
> > interrupt context.
> >
> > regards
> > Srinivas Bakki
> >
> 
> hi ,
>       will somebody please clarify this ?

As soon as it's on the list.

I thought only of tasklets which run in interrupt context. Workqueues
run in process context, of course.


Regards,
  Bernhard
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