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From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Antonio Vargas <wind@cocodriloo.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fairsched + O(1) process scheduler
Date: 02 Apr 2003 17:10:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1049321427.2872.25.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030402220734.GC13168@wind.cocodriloo.com>

On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 17:07, Antonio Vargas wrote:

> Hmmm, we had some way for executing code just after an interrupt,
> but outside interrupt scope... was it a bottom half? Can you
> point me to some place where it's done?

Unfortunately uidhash_lock cannot be used from a bottom half either.

You can push it into a work queue.  See schedule_work() and the default
events queue.

> Ok, I did know m68k can do it, but wasn't sure about all other arches :)

Yep.  Everyone architecture I know of - and certainly all that Linux
support - can do atomic read/writes to a word.  Thinking about it, it
would be odd if not (two writes to a single word interleaving?).  There
are places this assumption is used.

Anything more complicated, of course, needs atomic operations or locks.

	Robert Love


  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-02 21:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-01 12:51 fairsched + O(1) process scheduler Antonio Vargas
2003-04-01 16:41 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-01 22:19   ` Antonio Vargas
2003-04-02 12:46     ` Antonio Vargas
2003-04-02 16:35       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-02 21:36         ` Antonio Vargas
2003-04-02 21:35           ` Robert Love
2003-04-02 22:07             ` Antonio Vargas
2003-04-02 22:10               ` Robert Love [this message]
2003-04-02 22:35                 ` Antonio Vargas
2003-04-03 17:15                 ` Corey Minyard
2003-04-03 18:17                   ` Robert Love
     [not found]     ` <200304021144.21924.frankeh@watson.ibm.com>
2003-04-03 12:53       ` Antonio Vargas
2003-04-03 19:22         ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-04 11:27           ` Antonio Vargas
2003-04-04 14:04             ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-04 20:12               ` Antonio Vargas
2003-04-04 20:40                 ` William Lee Irwin III
     [not found]             ` <200304041453.16630.frankeh@watson.ibm.com>
2003-04-04 21:36               ` Antonio Vargas
     [not found]                 ` <200304081456.34367.frankeh@watson.ibm.com>
2003-04-08 20:19                   ` Antonio Vargas
2003-04-01 18:33 ` Robert Love

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