Linux kernel thread with Linux 2.6.x

[Thiago Galesi]

>
> As the interrupt handler can't be scheduled, I have made a kernel thread
> which waits forever on a semaphore.
> This semaphore is set when a received packet interrupt occured.

You should look into tasklets for this. Not that your system is not
OK, but, as you said it, it's not fast enough.

Note that you still have some limitations using tasklets, but it's
more flexible than Interrupt handlers.