softirq question

Aviv Greenberg (avivg@voltaire.com)
Wed, 23 May 2001 12:26:49 +0200


Hi,

Is it possible to enter into sleep mode
( current->state = !RUNNING && schedule(_timeout))
from a softirq ?

It is not a real hardware interrupt after all, but it still runs in
the context of a running process....

Aviv Greenberg // sizeof(void)
http://www.voltaire.com

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