From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: pnilesh@in.ibm.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: preemp / nonpreemp
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:18:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000418101801.I3916@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA2568C5.0017E931.00@d73mta05.au.ibm.com>; from pnilesh@in.ibm.com on Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 09:42:27AM +0530
Hi,
On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 09:42:27AM +0530, pnilesh@in.ibm.com wrote:
> The Linux kernel is preemptable.
Not by any normal definition. The kernel is not preempted: any
scheduler interrupt which occurs while kernel code is running will
not cause a reschedule.
Kernel code _can_ be rescheduled, but only explicitly by calling
schedule(), or implicitly by calling some function which performs
a sleeping operation (including page faults).
>
> Does the preemption mean that inside system calls in kernel a call to
> schedule is possible .
It is possible, yes, but it will not happen in a preemptive manner.
--Stephen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-04-18 9:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-04-18 4:12 pnilesh
2000-04-18 6:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-04-18 9:18 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2000-04-18 8:20 pnilesh
2000-04-18 9:22 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-04-18 10:49 pnilesh
2000-04-18 11:23 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
[not found] <CA2568C5.002E8BFC.00@d73mta03.au.ibm.com>
2000-04-18 15:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
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