From: Herman Oosthuysen <herman@wirelessnetworksinc.com>
To: "linux-mtd@lists.infrared.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Why timer interrupt is disabled?
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 11:06:11 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01052511093801.00873@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1765.990808662@redhat.com>
On Fri, 25 May 2001, David Woodhouse wrote:
> The kernel is not preemptively scheduled. Unless the first process
> explicitly calls schedule(), it's not going to lose the CPU. Only processes
> in user mode are scheduled from the timer IRQ.
Is it not dangerous to assume that the kernel is non-preemptive?
MTD is after all most likely to be used in a real-time system, which may very
well have a different scheduler from the common/garden variety Linux.
Cheers,
--
Herman Oosthuysen
Phone: 403+569-5687
E-mail: Herman@WirelessNetworksInc.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-25 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-25 13:04 Why timer interrupt is disabled? andreev
2001-05-25 13:12 ` David Woodhouse
[not found] ` <3B0EE338.1000701@niisi.msk.ru>
2001-05-25 15:17 ` David Woodhouse
2001-05-26 0:17 ` Alexandr Andreev
2001-05-25 16:37 ` David Woodhouse
2001-05-25 17:06 ` Herman Oosthuysen [this message]
2001-05-26 1:31 ` Alexandr Andreev
2001-05-25 17:36 ` David Woodhouse
[not found] <3B0EE8CF.7040502@niisi.msk.ru>
[not found] ` <20010526000119.A23273@suse.de>
2001-05-28 19:07 ` Alexandr Andreev
2001-05-28 15:36 ` David Woodhouse
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