> It would be not so bad idea to grep kernel for do_bottom_half.
> You found only one place, there exist at least two more 8)8)
*dons paper bag and hits himself with a clue-by-four*
> BHs are run not between tasks, they are run not depending on tasks
> and in parallel with tasks. Does it answer to your question?
Yup, I was talking crap again - sorry. So the bh is run both in and out of
interrupt context, in which case we do need the spin_lock_irq(), yes? Actually,
don't we only need to disable the bottom half on the local cpu?
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