"Raj, Ashok" wrote:
> I just started looking at the tasklet and softirq stuff in 2.3.99-pre9
> sources. Could someone send me a very quick explanation of what this is? iam
> thinking its the more performant bottom_half implementation that could be
> scheduled on multiple cpu's correct?
. Tasklets are especially useful for polling
. They are like multithreaded bottom halves, this is why they are
efficients for multi-processors architecture.
Have a look on commentaries of the following file for few informations :
$KERNELDIR/include/linux/interrupt.h
Hope this could be helpful,
BRs,
Fred.
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