DPC stands for Deferred Procedure Call.
Modified: trunk/reactos/doc/INTERNALS
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Modified: trunk/reactos/doc/INTERNALS
--- trunk/reactos/doc/INTERNALS 2005-07-17 11:15:55 UTC (rev 16610)
+++ trunk/reactos/doc/INTERNALS 2005-07-17 12:24:15 UTC (rev 16611)
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
It is a design goal not to spend too much time in ISRs, for this reason
ISRs should postpone most processing till it can run at a lower IRQL.
The
-mechanism for this is a Delayed Procedure Call (DPC). When a DPC object
is
+mechanism for this is a Deferred Procedure Call (DPC). When a DPC
object is
created, it is associated with a function. The DPC object can then be
inserted
in the DPC queue from an ISR. If the IRQL on return from the ISR is
less than
DISPATCH_LEVEL the DPC queue will be drained, otherwise this will
happen when