On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Daniel Marmier wrote:
>
> If my understanding is correct :
> a) tasklet_hi_schedule is to be called by hardirqs
> b) hardirqs cannot be re-entered
No, hard-irq's _can_ be re-entered. One hard-irq cannot re-enter itself,
but you can have _different_ irq's enter each other. As such, to avoid
deadlock in on the local CPU the current code is needed..
Linus
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