> Therefore, here is my question. Does timeslice have any effice on > kernel threads? and how? not at all really... (well technically if you enable kernel preemption it can, assuming you don't take locks or disable preemption inside your thread) so 1) don't do busy wait 2) don't do busy wait 3) if you do long loops anyway, put in a cond_resched() in key places to voluntarily give up the cpu when needed -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
