Re: RT patch acceptance

Tom Vier
2005-05-25T21:26:13Z

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:05:05PM +0200, Esben Nielsen wrote:
> Long interrupt handlers can be interrupt by _tasks_, not only other
> interrupts! An audio application running in userspace can be scheduled
> over an ethernet interrupt handler copying data from the
> controller into RAM (without DMA).

Doesn't that greatly increase the risk of the hardware overrunning it's
buffer?

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