From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422771AbWHAIPp (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 04:15:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422773AbWHAIPp (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 04:15:45 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.186]:49149 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422771AbWHAIPo (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 04:15:44 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: "G SR" Subject: Re: [help] Bottom half scheduling Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 10:15:39 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608011015.40098.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:bf0b512fe2ff06b96d9695102898be39 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Monday 31 July 2006 14:36 schrieb G SR: > The question is: Which tasklet will come into execution when the > interrupt task completes?. In other words whether the pre-empted > tasklet will resume its exec- > ution or the newly scheduled tasklet will execute? The one that was interrupted will complete first, then the other one executes. Note that softirqs that are scheduled from other softirqs may get deferred to execute from ksoftirqd, at a later point in time. Arnd <><