From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: Rick Brown <rick.brown.3@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: preempt_disable() question
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:27:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47E19361.1010407@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7783925d0803181914n16b0a221l179cc350bc2f3f89@mail.gmail.com>
On 03/19/2008 03:14 AM, Rick Brown wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've asked this on kernel newbies before, but not enough responses.
>
> Does preempt_disable() disable preemption on all the processors, or
> just the local processor?
AFAIU preempt_disable increments preempt count of the current task, so that
nobody will take the cpu which it is executing on (scheduler doesn't allow that)
while the task is running until preempt count lowers to 0. How do you mean the
"disabling preemption on local processor", how/why would you want to disable
preemption of task potentially running on the other one?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-19 23:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-19 2:14 preempt_disable() question Rick Brown
2008-03-19 22:27 ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2008-03-19 22:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-03-20 16:23 ` Daniel Walker
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