On 05/13/2010 10:10 AM, Jiri Slaby wrote: > On 05/13/2010 09:25 AM, ratheesh k wrote: >> What is the real difference between these ? . I know that workqueue >> run on process context and can sleep ..what about kthread ? > > Well, workqueue runs in a kthread called name_of_your_workqueue/cpu > ("/cpu" is omitted when singlethread wq). (And when you use just schedule_work and create no workqueue for yourself, it's "events/cpu" kthread.) -- js -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html