Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Apr 2004 14:57:24 -0400 | From | Karim Yaghmour <> | Subject | Re: Interrupt handler |
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MNH wrote: > If a process is executing a system call, and an interrupt is invoked, > the process blocks. Now since interrupt handlers cannot block, the time > for which the IH runs is taken out of the process's time-slice ( Is this > right ?). > > What if the IH takes up all of the process's time-slice, does the > process gets knocked off the current list and thrown into the expired > list or is there something more to it?
This is the kind of thing LTT will allow you to see: http://www.opersys.com/LTT/
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