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From: "Lee Revell" <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>
Cc: "Luong Ngo" <luong.ngo@gmail.com>,
	"Linux kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Sleeping thread not receive signal until it wakes up
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 16:03:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <75b66ecd0703071303k24799f10ibc5c49dc69c5ee86@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0703071457060.13923@chaos.analogic.com>

On 3/7/07, linux-os (Dick Johnson) <linux-os@analogic.com> wrote:
> Interruptible_sleep_on is interruptible, but for your task to
> actually be awakened and your alarm handler to get some CPU,
> it needs to be scheduled. If the BKL (big kernel lock) is
> held, it won't be scheduled until it is released.

You can schedule while holding the BKL and it will be dropped and reacquired.

Lee

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-07 21:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-07  5:31 Luong Ngo
2007-03-07 13:19 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-03-07 19:28   ` Luong Ngo
2007-03-07 20:08     ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-03-07 21:03       ` Lee Revell [this message]
2007-03-08  0:40         ` Luong Ngo
2007-03-08  0:28       ` Luong Ngo
2007-03-08 13:01         ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-03-08 13:53           ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-08 22:52             ` Luong Ngo
2007-03-09 14:58               ` Sergey Vlasov
2007-03-09 19:50                 ` Luong Ngo
2007-03-07 20:20   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-03-07 18:09 ` Sergey Vlasov
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     [not found] ` <fa.cyXmbtXvYymKHdI0rEXZCxyk+KE@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]   ` <fa.zPDT1vfJF5MjVXXQH/l+YSaLl84@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]     ` <fa.HmQN7RhZNBRsiJYADMOsY8DL67k@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]       ` <fa.PDmHwxZ3arhmED5SLuEONyxUlz4@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]         ` <fa.ygLhZcCLgDxnwAYYVse/Xshr9IE@ifi.uio.no>
2007-03-09  1:10           ` Robert Hancock
2007-03-09  3:24             ` Luong Ngo
2007-03-09  3:45               ` Parav K Pandit
2007-03-10  0:10                 ` Luong Ngo
2007-03-10  8:22                   ` Sergey Vlasov
2007-03-10 10:54                     ` Luong Ngo

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