From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: ratheesh k <ratheesh.ksz@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Differnce between kthread and worqueue ?
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 10:10:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BEBB413.9010404@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik5vq9XHP4eCYw2J4eZVf3pwJZGP_9C4T93otAs@mail.gmail.com>
On 05/13/2010 09:25 AM, ratheesh k wrote:
> What is the real difference between these ? . I know that workqueue
> run on process context and can sleep ..what about kthread ?
Well, workqueue runs in a kthread called name_of_your_workqueue/cpu
("/cpu" is omitted when singlethread wq). The difference is that with
workqueue you don't care about looping in kthread, sleeping and managing
a work list.
--
js
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2010-05-13 7:25 Differnce between kthread and worqueue ? ratheesh k
2010-05-13 8:10 ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2010-05-13 8:12 ` Jiri Slaby
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