> Quoting Ingo Molnar (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu):
> > you probably want to use schedule_timeout(deltajiffies). You must make
> > sure that you can reschedule at that point.
>
> How can I tell? I am in an interrupt routine. not the ideal point for
> sheduling, right?
exactly, you must never reschedule in an interrupt.
> What criteria is there to tell a reshedulable function from an other
> one?
only interrupt-alike functions are not allowed to reschedule.
you can still postpone work in an interrupt handler without busy-waiting,
use add_timer()/del_timer() to set up timer events.
-- mingo
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