Re: Concurrent bottom halves

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Fri, 26 Feb 1999 18:21:22 +0100 (CET)


On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, B. James Phillippe wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>Is it possible in Linux-2.2 for a driver to mark a bottom half from within
>a bottom half and have them execute concurrently? I would like to mark a
>bottom half (tq_immediate) from code executing in net_bh, and have the new
>bottom half executing concurrently with net_bh.

That's impossible. The main feature of bh handler is that they run
_always_ serialized in respect of themself.

Andrea Arcangeli

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