October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
586 pages
14h 8m
English
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Concept of bottom halves
Bottom halves are mechanisms by which you split interrupt handlers into two parts. This introduces another term, which is top half. Before discussing each of them, let's talk about their origin, and what problem they solve.