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From: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>
To: "Sirotkin, Alexander" <demiurg@ti.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, jsun@mvista.com
Subject: Re: tasklet latency and system calls on mips
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:08:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030818100831.A16027@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F40F0F0.1080106@ti.com>; from demiurg@ti.com on Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 06:29:52PM +0300

On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 06:29:52PM +0300, Sirotkin, Alexander wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> The tasklet should be executed at the return of interrupt handling.
> 
> If not, there is a bug.
> 
>   
> 
> I have a feeling that we are going in circles. Tasklets are executed at
> the return of interrupt handler.
> However, I suspect that this is not enough. 

If you follow this, plus "tasklet_schedule() is indeed called in an interrupt
handler", you will should see "executing tasklet at the return of interrupt
handler"  is _obviously_ enough.

> On mips (contrary to x86),
> system call is NOT an interrupt.
> It's a different exception with different handler. Therefore I suspect
> that tasklets are NOT called at 
> the end of system call exception handler (which is a different handler,
> not do_IRQ).
>

... which is fine, if you can follow the above logic.

Jun

      reply	other threads:[~2003-08-18 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-13 13:46 tasklet latency and system calls on mips Sirotkin, Alexander
2003-08-13 16:54 ` Jun Sun
2003-08-14  9:17   ` Sirotkin, Alexander
2003-08-14 16:45     ` Jun Sun
2003-08-18 15:29       ` Sirotkin, Alexander
2003-08-18 17:08         ` Jun Sun [this message]

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