Messages in this thread |  | | From | Duncan Sands <> | Subject | Re: tasklets and finalization | Date | Mon, 12 Nov 2001 09:21:18 +0100 |
| |
On Monday 12 November 2001 8:57 am, you wrote: > On 11-Nov-2001 Duncan Sands wrote: > > PS: My first thought was to use tasklet_kill, but according > > to "Linux device drivers" (2nd ed) that may hang if the > > tasklet isn't pending. > > true. > > > PPS: Another thought was to call schedule(), hoping that > > all pending asklets will get run then, but is that reliable? > > if you are sure, the tasklet isn't rescheduled within the tasklet > i THINK this will do it: > > current->policy |= SCHED_YIELD; > schedule(); > > me
Thanks for thinking about this. Here's a thought:
... tasklet_schedule(&my_tasklet); tasklet_kill(&my_tasklet); ...
Since (as far as I can see) there is no way the tasklet will run before calling tasklet_kill, this should just kill any pending tasklets.
Duncan. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |