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Read-copy-update and kernel pre-emption

Read-copy-update and kernel pre-emption

Posted Jan 15, 2004 11:12 UTC (Thu) by Felix.Braun (subscriber, #3032)
Parent article: Read-copy-update and interrupt latency

Excuse my ignorance, but can't the soft interrupt that takes care of cleaning up be pre-empted by the potential real-time process? Or is kernel pre-emption turned off during soft interrupts?


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Read-copy-update and kernel pre-emption

Posted Jan 17, 2004 7:46 UTC (Sat) by dipankar (subscriber, #7820) [Link]

Kernel preemption is turned off during soft interrupts.

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