From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: what replaces tq_scheduler in 2.4
Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 11:04:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CD2D120.4DE377A0@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: LINKIFYAbeGBfEIaAADaEaIfCEdAEIbHeEDCDaHeEBcDceGLINKIFYAFADeDdcHBebaaCIAfHaJcEdCfFIcdbeCFfeFDBf <20020428.204911.63038910.davem@redhat.com> <001001c1ef3d$890a6d50$e6f7ae80@ad.uiuc.edu> <005d01c1efcb$561b8c10$e6f7ae80@ad.uiuc.edu> <001a01c1f094$8d572850$e6f7ae80@ad.uiuc.edu> <3CCF1B39.94CF0152@zip.com.au> <20020502174423.L696@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de>
Ingo Oeser wrote:
>
> ...
> What is the main difference between tq_immediate and the former
> tq_scheduler?
tq_immediate looks to be some very old piece of kernel infrastructure
which is somewhat obsolete but all the users have not been converted
to yet. May run in interrupt context.
tq_scheduler callbacks run in process context. Use schedule_task()
instead.
These mechanisms are discussed in the Rubini/Corbet bible:
http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-03 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-24 15:09 VLAN and Network Drivers 2.4.x jd
2002-04-24 13:04 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-24 16:23 ` AW: " jd
2002-04-24 16:35 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-24 17:03 ` AW: " jd
2002-04-24 16:59 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-24 17:31 ` Ben Greear
2002-04-24 17:25 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-24 17:58 ` Ben Greear
2002-04-24 17:56 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-24 19:43 ` Ben Greear
2002-04-24 22:23 ` AW: " jd
2002-04-24 17:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-04-24 18:04 ` Ben Greear
2002-04-24 18:10 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-04-24 18:07 ` Matti Aarnio
2002-04-24 18:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-04-24 17:42 ` AW: " jd
2002-04-24 17:40 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-24 22:28 ` AW: " jd
2002-04-24 22:21 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-25 4:26 ` AW: Re: AW: Re: AW: Re: AW: Re: AW: Re: AW: Re: AW: [was: VLAN and Network Drivers 2.4.x] Dax Kelson
[not found] ` <200204242141.02957.bodnar42@phalynx.dhs.org>
2002-04-25 4:43 ` Ryan Cumming
2002-04-25 10:19 ` Matthias Andree
2002-04-25 13:45 ` AW: Re: AW: Re: AW: Re: AW: Re: AW: Re: VLAN and Network Drivers 2.4.x jd
2002-04-26 0:46 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-27 20:34 ` jd
2002-04-28 2:43 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-28 20:28 ` jd
2002-04-29 3:49 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-29 5:20 ` How to enable printk Wanghong Yuan
2002-04-28 6:33 ` Uilton Dutra
2002-04-29 6:33 ` Itai Nahshon
2002-04-29 6:52 ` Chris Wright
2002-04-29 11:37 ` David Woodhouse
2002-04-30 17:12 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-04-30 12:55 ` David Woodhouse
2002-04-30 18:03 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-04-30 13:14 ` David Woodhouse
2002-04-29 22:15 ` Accurately measure CPU cycles used by a program? thanks Wanghong Yuan
2002-04-29 22:22 ` J.A. Magallon
2002-04-30 16:30 ` Zach Brown
2002-05-10 23:49 ` Corey Minyard
2002-04-30 22:15 ` what replaces tq_scheduler in 2.4 Wanghong Yuan
2002-04-30 22:31 ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-02 15:44 ` Ingo Oeser
2002-05-03 0:13 ` Wanghong Yuan
2002-05-03 18:04 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-05-01 6:41 ` suspend a thread in LKM Wanghong Yuan
2002-04-29 9:06 ` VLAN and Network Drivers 2.4.x jd
2002-04-25 10:20 ` Matthias Andree
2002-04-24 16:39 ` AW: " Pasi Kärkkäinen
2002-04-24 16:18 ` Ben Greear
2002-04-24 16:46 ` AW: " jd
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-01 2:27 what replaces tq_scheduler in 2.4 Andrew_Purtell
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