At 01:19 PM 10/15/2002 -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: "Maksim (Max) Krasnyanskiy" <maxk@qualcomm.com>
> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:23:28 -0700
>
> _bh is not a "base handler" it stands for "bottom half".
>
>All of these phrases mean the same thing to me.
>
>Do you want to know what is different? "tasklets",
>they are a totally different abstraction,
tasklets are softirqs. I mean they aren't much different. Tasklets are
executed
from the softirq, so they have same context and stuff.
>as are "work queues"
Yep. These are different, because they are executed in process context.
>"base handler" and "bottom half" all refer to an execution
>context, and these days that means softirq.
I guess we should then have some kinda readme that explains what
all those things are. And the BH context covers softirqs and tasklets.
Max
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