Re: bottom halves queued but not called

From: Daniel Kobras (daniel.kobras@student.uni-tuebingen.de)
Date: Mon Jun 12 2000 - 17:10:56 EST

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On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Sebastien Rougeaux wrote:

> Using debug messages, I can see that the bottom halves are always queued
> when the appropriate event is received, but sometimes not called afterwards.

You're looping in the IRQ handler so it's possible that a task gets queued
multiple times before the immediate task queue is run. This however is
forbidden so the extra queue_task()s are ignored. (You can check this by
testing if task.sync==1 before calling queue_task().)

Regards,

Daniel.

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