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SubjectRe: Delay in a tasklet.
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On Tuesday 29 March 2005 07:20, Bouchard, Sebastien wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm in the process of writing a linux driver and I have a question in
> regards to tasklet :
>
> Is it ok to have large delay "udelay(1000);" in the tasklet?
>
> If not, what should I do?
>

If the hardware can tolerate longer a longer or variable delays, then perhaps
putting the work that has the large delay on a one shot timer would work?

If that doesn't cut it, then I wonder if you could structure your taskelt
processing around a kernel thread.

Is this for 2.6 or 2.4 based kernels?

--mgross

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