Anton Ghiugan <ghiugan@lucent.com> writes:
> Sorry about this insistence, but I need to know:
>
> Can a bottom half like NET_BH be interrupted by a kernel timer ? (Yes/No)
Yes. It can be interrupted by any hardware interrupt, but such a nested
interrupt will not recursively run any more bottom half handlers.
Bottom halves are atomic with respect to each other, but they don't
disable top half interrupts.
--Stephen
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