Hi, I dont understand properly what do you meant my that. But one thing is clear no thread works for too long. It either sleeps for some event,or periodically wakes up do its work and yeilds itself. So during the time the kernel is working for the behalf of thread and its true that it could not do other work except interrupts processing. Prasanna --- jhoney jhoney <jhoney_joney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello All, > > A thread in the kernel with a while loop in the body > will decrease the response time of the kernel? > > Thanks, > Regards > > Jhoney __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/