Re: interrupt latency

Marc SCHAEFER (schaefer@alphanet.ch)
Sat, 22 Aug 1998 19:00:13 +0200 (MEST)


On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:

> Perhaps a better option would be to change the type of bottom_half
> used for processing the incoming data. IIRC, some kind of bottom
> halves are processed only on a timer tick or on reschedule, doing
> immediate processing of disk and tqueue bottom halves could improve
> system performance instead of being a bottleneck (which was why they
> were removed in the first place).

But are those able to do I/O, to be suspended, etc ?

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