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Old 10-28-2005, 04:51 AM   #1
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"bottom half" vs "softirq"

Hi,
I read somewhere, that "the network stack is no longer a bottom half, but a softirq". I thought bottom halves and softirqs where the same.

It says that the difference is that they- softirqs- may run on more than one CPU simultaneously. Is this the difference?
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Old 10-28-2005, 07:00 AM   #2
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Hi,

There is an interesting document here:

http://www.wil.cx/matthew/lca2003/paper.pdf
 
  


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