Re: bugs in __schedule()

From: Satyam Sharma
Date: Tue Jun 26 2007 - 05:08:46 EST


On 6/26/07, gshan <gshan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I mean kernel thread could sleep, but tasklet can't. If so, it meet my
requirements.

That's not really a justification to convert a tasklet to a kernel thread.
I suspect the simplest solution to your problem would be to simply
replace that semaphore with a spinlock. Other than that, we can't really
help without looking at code.
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