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From: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
To: ratheesh k <ratheesh.ksz@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: preempt_disable and sleep()
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 11:43:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1273776201.11899.23.camel@sven.thebigcorporation.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinbwZK5Tp6aI4ja38XaiiB5aIyECzHPdMpvkaIy@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 00:02 +0530, ratheesh k wrote:
> I am running RT linux .
> 
> /* code snippet */
> 
> preempt_disable()
> ...........
> sleep(10);
> '............
> preempt_enable()
> 
> 
> will this sleep() will cause reschedule ?.
> 

Why would you do this?

If you had tried this code, you would have seen the corresponding stack
dump on the console.

> if an interrupt comes  while premption is disabled , how it is handled ?.
> 

Depends on the number of (idle) cores, the setting of CONFIG_PREEMPT_[]
and the type of interrupt.

RT threaded IRQs would not run until preemption is enabled on a single
core system.



> Thanks,
> Ratheesh
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-13 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-13 18:32 preempt_disable and sleep() ratheesh k
2010-05-13 18:43 ` Sven-Thorsten Dietrich [this message]
2010-05-14  2:46   ` ratheesh k
2010-05-14  3:37     ` Paul E. McKenney

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