On Fri 19 Jun 2015 at 11:45:40 +0200, Edgar Fuß wrote: > To eleborate, as I seem to have been too cryptic in my references: I learned > the terms top and bottom half from "The Design and Implementation of the > 4.4BSD Operating System" by McKusick, Bostic, Karels and Quaterman. The > text on page 51 explains "The bottom half of the kernel comprises routines > that are invoked to handle hardware interrupts." and the figure 3.1 above > explains "Never scheduled, cannot block. Runs on kernel stack in kernel > address space." For reference: - the same book with 4.3 in the title has the same Figure 3.1, but on page 44. - the same book with FreeBSD in the title has the same Figure 3.1, also on page 51. -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl -- 'this bath is too hot.'
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