Hi... > According to LDDv3 (p.203): "Tasklets may be run immediately if the > system is not under heavy load but never > later than the next timer tick." Were you trying not to make > assumptions or do you think LDD is incorrect?
Under not so extreme workload, I agree with what LDD saying (honestly, I just knew it the time you quote that sentence). However, IMHO there is corner case... that is extremely loaded machine. I come to this conclusion while doing code analysis months ago, and I see no guarantee that it won't run later than next timer tick. Again, I stressed the word "extremely loaded". Side note: Perhaps LDD can come to that conclusion since nowadays PCs are armed with powerful CPU ... Core 2 Duo to name a few. But what if you just have an old 386 in hand? It surely serves interrupts slower than Core 2 duo. Not to mention the capability of SMP machine to share the IRQ load. That's why I came to the above conclusion. i welcome any thoughts about it... regards, Mulyadi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
