From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965096AbVHZQUz (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:20:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965097AbVHZQUz (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:20:55 -0400 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.201]:6296 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965096AbVHZQUy convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:20:54 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=n9QGzLjF1dmRP/Scgyc4sqp03I7JD8o3QIDnVmwAmRORg1yOqBah1rTZdGpkGL4W1lfR5h4V6Fe18dqdz66+iefg6gtpVe45YDkemuErPOz9ewNeW2r70qcZvz9TFQHTnNUTQ4/gfaiF2mPj+hYK8KeSQRB/YkWRuwR1ltCkums= Message-ID: <6b5347dc05082609206ff7a305@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 00:20:53 +0800 From: "Sat." To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: when or where can the case occur in "linux kernel development " about "kernel preemption"? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org the case about kernel preemption as follow : the book said "when a process that has a higher priority than the currenty running process is awakened ". but I can think about when such case can occur , could you give me an example ? thanks and any help will be appreciated! -- Sat.