Task Queue Imediate Bottom Halfs question.

Rodney Schneider rodney at bicamera.com
Tue Aug 21 19:04:23 EST 2001


Hi,

This free book from Oreilly might also help you:

http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/index.html

Regards,

-- Rodney


On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Michel Lanners wrote:

> On  19 Aug, this message from Ira Weiny echoed through cyberspace:
> > So, my question is, why use a bottom half here?  Or really what is the
> > difference between scheduling a task queue (tasklet) imediate vs just
> > running the code in the IRQ handler?
>
> Have a look at Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl.
>
> It explains some of these things quite well, I think.
>
> Michel


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