On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 10:54:14PM +0100, Andrew Doran wrote:
> > Do you mean 'run the callout function' ?
> > Isn't that done from the soft timer interrupt anyway?
> 
> The callout will run in thread context from the softclock interrupt, yup.
> What I mean is that from a hardware ISR that does not have thread context
> (like at IPL_NET) it wouldn't be possible to call callout_reset() or similar
> functions. That would need to be deferred to a soft interrupt or a kernel
> thread.

Do you have a way to do this easily ? A lot of drivers do schedule or
stop callouts from their interrupt function.

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