On 14-11, Max Filippov wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 8:52 AM, Bruno E. O. Meneguele > <[email protected]> wrote: > > What > > confused me for sometime was the 'atomic' vs 'interrupt' naming, but > > after reading Robert's book it cames to the fact that they're the same. > > Not exactly the same. Atomic means you're protected from some sort of > interruption: e.g. you raise preemption counter and you're protected from > scheduling, but you still may be interrupted, or you disable interrupts and > you're protected from scheduling and interrupts, but there still may be an > NMI. >
Ahh, well pointed. Got it. Thank you for the info :)
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