On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Juan P. Gonzalez wrote:

> 2. If I'm in my ISR, and the device then generates another interrupt,
> what should
> happen?  Under the UP kernel, I see that the ISR is called back to
> service the new
> interrupt (as it should).  However, under the SMP kernel, the ISR is not
> called, and
> the device sits there unserviced (even though it's asserting its
> interrupt line).
> Why?

I do not know why, but this could explain certain problems with 3c509 driver
stopping receiving interrupts sometimes in SMP kernel.

--
Tomek

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