On Sat, 2013-02-09 at 14:57 +0800, Peter Teoh wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 1:47 PM, anish kumar > . > Timer interrupts is supposed to cause scheduling and scheduler > may or > may not pick up your last process(we always use the term > "task" in > kernel space) after handling timer interrupt. > > > > > > Sorry if I may disagree, correct me if wrong. Timer interrupt and > scheduler is two different thing. I just counted in the "drivers" > subdirectory, there are at least more than 200 places where > "setup_timer()" is called, and these have nothing to do with > scheduling. For eg, heartbeat operation etc. Not sure I > misunderstood something? Have a look at kernel/timer.c and kernel/hrtimer.c. There are many sched() calls in these files.This will invoke scheduler. > > > -- > Regards, > Peter Teoh _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
