From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262254AbULRNqV (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:46:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262256AbULRNqU (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:46:20 -0500 Received: from static64-74.dsl-blr.eth.net ([61.11.64.74]:50949 "EHLO linmail.globaledgesoft.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262254AbULRNqP (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:46:15 -0500 Message-ID: <41C4339C.7020005@globaledgesoft.com> Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 19:11:48 +0530 From: krishna User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040805 Netscape/7.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: drizzd@aon.at, Linux Kernel Subject: Re: Documentation on top half and bottom halves References: <41C3F9A2.3040700@globaledgesoft.com> In-Reply-To: <41C3F9A2.3040700@globaledgesoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, How to understand when to use which mechanism depending upon the hardware: 1) If DMA support is not there and If it is there. 2) If Shared Interrupts are there and not there. 3) If there are multiple same Host controllers and single Host Controller. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Thank you very much On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 03:04:26PM +0530, krishna wrote: > Can any one tell me good Documentation on bottom halves beyond doubt. Documentation on Tasklets: - http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/ch09.html#t5 - kernel/softirq.c Documentation on Workqueues: - http://lwn.net/Articles/23634/ - kernel/workqueue.c Clemens - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/