Hello.... > As for disabling the interupt timer: is there a way to block it? > rather than disable? or is that what you mean? Im not familiar with > the timer softirq. where can i find it and how can i disable it and > then re-enable it? Pssst, don't do top posting :) You've been warned ;) OK I admit, I forgot in which context scheduler_tick() is called. it is the functions which do the actual decrement of timeslice. maybe it is directly called inside timer interrupt handler, maybe it is called inside tasklet. From what I read at a glance inside Linux kernel source, big chance it is called inside interrupt handler. In this case, disable_irq() is your friend. Pass timer irq as the parameter (see /proc/interrupts to see which irq line occupied by timer ). Please note that disable_irq() might block as it waits all the related interrupt handler to finish first. regards Mulyadi -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
