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* can we sleep at the bottom half environment?
@ 2005-11-18  3:55 jeff shia
  2005-11-18  8:23 ` Matt Keenan
  2005-11-18 10:21 ` Zhang Le
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: jeff shia @ 2005-11-18  3:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

hello,
      can we sleep at the bottom half environment?such as in a softirq
or a workqueue? why?
     Thank you!

jeffshia

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* Re: can we sleep at the bottom half environment?
  2005-11-18  3:55 can we sleep at the bottom half environment? jeff shia
@ 2005-11-18  8:23 ` Matt Keenan
  2005-11-18 10:21 ` Zhang Le
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Matt Keenan @ 2005-11-18  8:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: jeff shia; +Cc: linux-kernel

jeff shia wrote:

>hello,
>      can we sleep at the bottom half environment?such as in a softirq
>or a workqueue? why?
>     Thank you!
>
>jeffshia
>
>  
>
This looks remarkably similar to a systems programming assignment 
question :)

Matt


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* Re: can we sleep at the bottom half environment?
  2005-11-18  3:55 can we sleep at the bottom half environment? jeff shia
  2005-11-18  8:23 ` Matt Keenan
@ 2005-11-18 10:21 ` Zhang Le
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Zhang Le @ 2005-11-18 10:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: jeff shia; +Cc: linux-kernel

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jeff shia wrote:

| hello, can we sleep at the bottom half environment?such as in a
| softirq or a workqueue? why? Thank you!
|
| jeffshia
|
in workqueue,     ok
in softirq,             not ok
check Robert Love's "Linux Kernel Development".

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