Looking for comments on Bottom-Half/Tasklet/SoftIRQ

chuckw@ieee.org
Sat, 18 Aug 2001 23:17:04 -0400


Greetings,
I was reading the unreliable guide to kernel hacking and was looking for
a little clarification on something. 2 Bottom halves cannot run at the same
time, why?
Also, could someone give me an example of a service which is a bottom half/
tasklet/SoftIRQ?

Thanks in advance,
Chuck
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