From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992956AbXCIEhc (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 23:37:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992955AbXCIEhc (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 23:37:32 -0500 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:33444 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992954AbXCIEha (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 23:37:30 -0500 Message-ID: <45F0E51F.9050105@tmr.com> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 23:39:59 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: albcamus CC: Mockern@yandex.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Question: schedule() References: <45ED23E3.000004.17474@webmail18.yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org albcamus wrote: > your kthread IS preemptible unless you call preempt_disable or some > locking functions explicitly . > I think he's trying to go the other way, make his thread the highest priority to blow anything else in the system out of the water. See his previous post "how to make kernel thread more faster?" -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot