Cats and Interrupts
By far my favorite way to explain Priority Interrupts is ... cats.
Obviously. A kitty can by resting on top of you, eyes closed or
half-closed, purring gently (the sound of the scheduler idling
comfortably), when suddenly the cat's external sensors detect an
important sound, or a flash of movement -- and then that interrupt
overrides everything else in the queue, the motive engines roar into
action as the cat in an instant leaps suddenly and forcefully from
your soft abdomen in search of its priority target, and you realize
that a Priority Interrupt isn't just important to the cat, it can
actually be painful to you. But that's how the system works, and we
wouldn't have it any other way. -L
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