Re: your mail

Richard B. Johnson
2001-05-08T20:15:28Z

On Tue, 8 May 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:

> On Tue, May 08 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> >
> > To driver wizards:
> >
> > I have a driver which needs to wait for some hardware.
> > Basically, it needs to have some code added to the run-queue
> > so it can get some CPU time even though it's not being called.
> >
> > It needs to get some CPU time which can be "turned on" or
> > "turned off" as a result of an interrupt or some external
> > input from an ioctl().
> >
> > So I thought that the "tasklet" would be ideal. However, the
> > scheduler "thinks" that a tasklet is an interrupt, so any
> > attempt to sleep in the tasklet results in a kernel panic,
> > "ieee scheduling in an interrupt..., BUG sched.c line 688".
>
> Use a kernel thread? If you don't need to access user space, context
> switches are very cheap.
>
> > So, what am I supposed to do to add a piece of driver code to the
> > run queue so it gets scheduled occasionally?
>
> Several, grep for kernel_thread.
>
> --
> Jens Axboe
>

Okay. Thanks. I thought I would have to do that too. No problem.
It's a "tomorrow" thing. Ten hours it too long to stare at a
screen.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

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