2007/5/15, Gaurav Bhatnagar <bhatnagar.gaurav22@xxxxxxxxx>:
if you set disable preemption ... kernel can't schedule another thread until thread itself leave the cpu ... if this thread sleeps who will wake it up ??? this would lead to deadlock .. gaurav
I do not think the potential dead-lock is the reason, because the sleep operation is exactly the operation of relinquishing CPU. So if a process disable preemption and then sleep, the scheduler will be invoked and another process will use CPU. No dead-lock here. I think the reason lies in why you are about to use preemption disabling in the first place. When you use preemption disabling, you managed to define a critical region within which your data structure is protected from being corrupted by another process. But if you put a sleep in that critical region, I think you actually split your original critical region into two regions in purpose so you should encompass each region by one pair of preempt_disable/enable respectively. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
