From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: calling kthread_create() from interrupt thread
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:41:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38yeolfkv.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27qxQ-67a-27@gated-at.bofh.it> (Dean Nelson's message of "Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:10:10 +0200")
Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> writes:
>
> 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?
You could create your own work queue upfront. Blocking an generic workqueue
for a long time is indeed nasty.
-Andi
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[not found] ` <27qoT-5Uy-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
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2004-06-15 20:41 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-06-15 17:42 calling kthread_create() from interrupt thread Dean Nelson
2004-06-15 17:49 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-15 18:05 ` Dean Nelson
2004-06-15 18:14 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-06-15 22:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-06-15 18:15 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-06-15 19:01 ` Robin Holt
2004-06-15 19:28 ` Roland Dreier
2004-06-15 19:30 ` Chris Wright
2004-06-15 23:40 ` Rusty Russell
2004-06-15 19:14 ` Dean Nelson
2004-06-15 19:27 ` Roland Dreier
2004-06-15 19:59 ` Chris Wright
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