From: bmeneguele@gmail.com (Bruno E. O. Meneguele)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: sleep
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 11:34:39 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171116133439.GA8089@glitch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMo8Bf+CKKN_2EJT2w_bTH17EqXErsaJcYQSxj_ipBrT=O=wfA@mail.gmail.com>
On 14-11, Max Filippov wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 8:52 AM, Bruno E. O. Meneguele
> <bmeneguele@gmail.com> wrote:
> > What
> > confused me for sometime was the 'atomic' vs 'interrupt' naming, but
> > after reading Robert's book it cames to the fact that they're the same.
>
> Not exactly the same. Atomic means you're protected from some sort of
> interruption: e.g. you raise preemption counter and you're protected from
> scheduling, but you still may be interrupted, or you disable interrupts and
> you're protected from scheduling and interrupts, but there still may be an
> NMI.
>
Ahh, well pointed. Got it. Thank you for the info :)
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-26 0:12 sleep Tobin C. Harding
2017-10-28 12:41 ` sleep Bogdan Lazic
2017-11-14 16:52 ` sleep Bruno E. O. Meneguele
2017-11-14 20:41 ` sleep Tobin C. Harding
2017-11-14 20:53 ` sleep Max Filippov
2017-11-16 13:34 ` Bruno E. O. Meneguele [this message]
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