On Monday 09 October 2006 7:18 am, Christopher "Monty" Montgomery wrote: > since most of the submissions > will be happening inside the interrupt handler and thus will be > running un-preemptible (am I correct here?).
IRQ handlers can be preempted "for real" in some realtime kernels, where they're mapped directly to threads. On many systems they could also just be interrupted in the more usual way, if e.g. IRQF_DISABLED (nee SA_INTERRUPT) wasn't set in request_irq(). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
