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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@myrealbox.com>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: puting task to TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE before adding it to an wait queue
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 22:23:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <441BA74E.7090407@myrealbox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1142582503.7973.15.camel@homer>

Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 00:31 +0200, Yitzchak Eidus wrote:
> 
>>the function worker_thread in kernel 2.6.15.6  first put the task to
>>TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE and only then add itself to an wait queue:
>>	set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
>>	while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
>>		add_wait_queue(&cwq->more_work, &wait);
> 
> 
> See dusty old archives...

Also, preempted tasks get rescheduled regardless of state:

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2003-15/0402.html

--Andy

      reply	other threads:[~2006-03-18  6:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-16 22:31 puting task to TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE before adding it to an wait queue Yitzchak Eidus
2006-03-16 22:52 ` Yitzchak Eidus
2006-03-17  8:01 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-03-18  6:23   ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]

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