<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><base href="x-msg://11/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>Yes you can, infact network subsystem softirq are reactive so it can run again.</div><div>however, reactivated softirq are not immediately process but until kernel handles the pending softirqs because it might introduce latency in user-space. </div><div>And for better performance, when pending BH grows excessively then family of kernel threads are wakes up to handle the load.</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On 27-Sep-2013, at 4:44 PM, Vishwas Srivastava (vishsriv) <<a href="mailto:vishsriv@cisco.com">vishsriv@cisco.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(112, 48, 160); ">Hi Group,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(112, 48, 160); "> I am a bit unclear if, I could schedule another BH while I am already running in a BH ?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(112, 48, 160); ">For example, if I am running in a SOFT IRQ, can I schedule a tasklet from there ??<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(112, 48, 160); "> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(112, 48, 160); ">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(112, 48, 160); ">Vishwas S<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(112, 48, 160); "> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Kernelnewbies mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies</a></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>