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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 10:28:32 -0700
From: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
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Maksim Krasnyanskiy wrote:
> 
> >processing in the tasklet would like to reschedule tasklet again. will the following work
> >
> >tasklet_function()
> >{
> >         more_processing = DeferredProcessing()
> >             if (more_processing)
> >                tasklet_schedule() // this will schedule the same tasklet.
> >}
> >
> >is the above legal.
> It's fine and it will work.
> 
Does the tasklet get run again on the same interrupt (assuming that
tasklets are run at the end of irq processing) or the next one?

If the same, it would seem to be better to just do it.

George