Re: Race condition in interrupt handling

Jan Stoess <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:15:08 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.micro-kernel.l4.l4ka.general
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On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 09:03:30AM -0500, Mai, Haohui wrote:
> But I do agree with you that the spinlock might lead to a deadlock
> under such the situation I described before.
> 
> However, I'm unable to observe it during the debugging.
> 
> Just to make sure, interrupt migration is disabled by default unless
> I turn on "poll other cpu's queue on idle", right?
> 

No, idle polling does not have anything to do with IRQ migration. Latter is always avaisable and triggered implicitly when migrating IRQ threads.

-Jan

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