--- Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> wrote: > schedule() does not do the check. After all, it's > called rather often in > kernel context (explicitely). So the check must be > somewhere in the > timer interrupt stuff. yes, thats true it cant happen in schedule(), it should have happened in the timer_interupt service routine , it striked me later :-) ! which is the service routine and in which file is it? please let me know. thank you. cheers, Amith __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/