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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Differnce between kthread and worqueue ?
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 10:10:59 +0200
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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.
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js