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From: "Luís Henriques" <lhenriques@criticalsoftware.com>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: copy to user
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 11:02:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200111211108.fALB8K291684@criticalsoftware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0111202040180.23000-100000@mail.deis.isec.pt> <20011120144414.C1308@lynx.no>
In-Reply-To: <20011120144414.C1308@lynx.no>

> If you put the process in (un)interruptible sleep in the kernel, won't this
> be enough?  This is different than SIGSTOP.  Is the requirement that this
> process not leave the kernel call, or that it is actually consuming CPU
> cycles as well?

The process needs to be using CPU time, however, there must be a chance to 
the scheduler to change the current process... if this occurs, than the delay 
has to be aborted. 

>
> > About using udelay... this soluction seemed fine to me at first but if I
> > hang the CPU with udelay the scheduler will no be doing it's job (isn't
> > it?). This would give me even more intrusiveness (another requirement:
> > the less intrusiveness as possible).
>
> It would probably work OK on an SMP system, since tasks can still be run
> on the other CPU.
>
> Cheers, Andreas

-- 
Luís Henriques

  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-21 11:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-20 20:54 copy to user Luis Miguel Correia Henriques
2001-11-20 21:28 ` John Alvord
2001-11-20 21:44 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-21 11:02   ` Luís Henriques [this message]
2001-11-20 22:02 ` n0ano
2001-11-20 22:05 ` Chris Wright
2001-11-21  8:43 ` Mathijs Mohlmann
2001-11-21 10:12   ` Jan Hudec
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-25 21:58 Marco C. Mason

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