From: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
To: "Bouchard, Sebastien" <Sebastien.Bouchard@ca.kontron.com>,
"'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Delay in a tasklet.
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:48:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200503311048.25674.mgross@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5009AD9521A8D41198EE00805F85F18F054EA085@sembo111.teknor.com>
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 07:20, Bouchard, Sebastien wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm in the process of writing a linux driver and I have a question in
> regards to tasklet :
>
> Is it ok to have large delay "udelay(1000);" in the tasklet?
>
> If not, what should I do?
>
If the hardware can tolerate longer a longer or variable delays, then perhaps
putting the work that has the large delay on a one shot timer would work?
If that doesn't cut it, then I wonder if you could structure your taskelt
processing around a kernel thread.
Is this for 2.6 or 2.4 based kernels?
--mgross
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-31 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-29 15:20 Delay in a tasklet Bouchard, Sebastien
2005-03-30 10:15 ` Davide Rossetti
2005-03-30 11:50 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-03-30 13:57 ` linux-os
2005-03-31 18:48 ` Mark Gross [this message]
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2005-03-30 12:01 tvrtko.ursulin
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