From: vikram186@gmail.com (Vikram Narayanan)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: linux hrtimer affinity
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:34:09 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F3FE819.3030709@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1.1329498001.1915.kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org>
Hello,
On 17-Feb-12 00:58:30, srimugunthan dhandapani wrote:
> Hi all
> As an experiment, i am trying to use softirq instead of using tasklet
> in my driver code.
Softirqs are meant for very critical processing. Why don't you reconsider?
> I was passing the driver's structure pointer to the tasklet.
Tasklet or softirq?
> The "open_softirq" takes only the function pointer as argument.
> Since we can't pass any argument to the softirq, is there any
> workaround that is possible to make the structure pointer accessible
> to softirq?
Anyways, you would've defined the softirq handler in your driver. right?
> I just need to do this for taking measurements.
Timestamps?
HTH,
Vikram
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2012-02-18 18:04 ` Vikram Narayanan [this message]
2012-02-14 16:06 linux hrtimer affinity Vimal
2012-02-19 23:50 ` Peter Teoh
2012-02-20 2:09 ` Peter Teoh
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