Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 23 May 2001 11:39:14 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: softirq question |
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On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:26:49PM +0200, Aviv Greenberg wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to enter into sleep mode > ( current->state = !RUNNING && schedule(_timeout)) > from a softirq ?
No.
> > It is not a real hardware interrupt after all, but it still runs in > the context of a running process....
It is for all practical purposes like an interrupt and can run in any process context.
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