Messages in this thread | | | From | Jesse Barnes <> | Subject | Re: calling kthread_create() from interrupt thread | Date | Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:14:20 -0400 |
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On Tuesday, June 15, 2004 2:05 pm, Dean Nelson wrote: > As mentioned above, it is possible for this "simple" function to > sleep/block for an indefinite period of time. I was under the impression > that one couldn't block a work queue thread for an indefinite period of > time. Am I mistaken?
For tasklets and softirqs you're not allowed to sleep, but I think it's ok for work queues.
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