Currently, the 2.6 kernel provides softirqs, tasklets and work queues as available types of bottom halves. work queus is only bottom-half mechanism that runs in process context
Regards
Rajath.N.R
On 8/18/06, Bernhard Walle <bernhard.walle@xxxxxx> wrote:
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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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