Kernel prepatch 6.9-rc1

Posted Mar 28, 2024 0:31 UTC (Thu) by opalmirror (subscriber, #23465)
Parent article: Kernel prepatch 6.9-rc1

The tiny VxWorks RTOS (that I worked on from 2000-2005) deferred work (essentially a function pointer with parameters) from interrupt handlers to a work queue. I kinda feel like Linux has explored many ideas for a long time, only to settle on a similar approach.