From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: calling kthread_create() from interrupt thread
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:49:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1087321777.2710.43.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40CF350B.mailxD2X1NPFBC@aqua.americas.sgi.com>
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On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 19:42, Dean Nelson wrote:
> I'm working on a driver that needs to create threads that can sleep/block
> for an indefinite period of time.
>
> . Can kthread_create() be called from an interrupt handler?
no
>
> . Is the cost of a kthread's creation/demise low enough so that one
> can, as often as needed, create a kthread that performs a simple
> function and exits? Or is the cost too high for this?
for that we have keventd in 2.4, work queues in 2.6
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-15 17:42 Dean Nelson
2004-06-15 17:49 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
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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[not found] ` <27qoT-5Uy-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <27qxQ-67a-27@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-06-15 20:41 ` Andi Kleen
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