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Re: Bottom Half


 Bottom Half is that part of the interrupt that is not executed when the 
interrupt occurs but before leaving the kernel space. What i mean is, an 
interrupt has 2 parts tophalf and bottomhalf. top half is a very small 
fragment of code that gets executed as soon as an interrupt occrs. But the 
bottom half is delayed and executed before leaving the kernel space.

HTH.
raghu

On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Mohanasundaram C wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> 	Can any one please explain me what is Bottom Half.
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Regards,
> Mohan.
> 
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