Re: calling kthread_create() from interrupt thread

Jesse Barnes
2004-06-15T18:14:49Z

On Tuesday, June 15, 2004 2:05 pm, Dean Nelson wrote:
> As mentioned above, it is possible for this "simple" function to
> sleep/block for an indefinite period of time. I was under the impression
> that one couldn't block a work queue thread for an indefinite period of
> time. Am I mistaken?

For tasklets and softirqs you're not allowed to sleep, but I think it's ok for
work queues.

Jesse