Re: Today Linus redesigns the networking driver interface (was Re: tulip driver in ...)
Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Tue, 22 Sep 1998 23:16:13 +1000
On Tue, 22 Sep 1998 21:01:34 +1000,
Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au> wrote:
>> On Tue, 22 Sep 1998 17:27:36 +1000,
>> Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au> wrote:
>> >The simple rule: "if you haven't registered/marked active a BH, then
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> >you aren't going to trigger BH processing, so don't worry about it"
>> >seems like the right thing.
>
>Eh? do_bottom_half() will run *any* BH that is marked. So what's the
>problem? Anything that registers a BH will of course have to mark it:
>that's the whole point.
Original suggestion implied that the interrupt handler would *not*
mark_bh() in all cases. Source of confusion :( found.
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