Messages in this thread | | | From | Muni Sekhar <> | Date | Fri, 29 Jul 2016 15:09:42 +0530 | Subject | doubt on schedule_work() - work task getting scheduled lately |
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Hi All,
I have a doubt regarding the workqueue scheduling.
I am using the workqueue for processing the Rx Interrupt data. I am calling schedule_work() on receiving the Rx interrupt from hardware.
I calculated the time between calling the schedule_work() and workqueue task actually getting executed, Here I see many cases of less than 100 us(It is fairly good).
But sometimes I see 10’s of ms and a lot in the 100’s of ms. I have seen over 0.5 secs too. I would like to know why does sometimes kernel takes longer time(in milli seconds) to schedule it? Is there any way to reduce this time gap?
My code:
static void my_workqueuetask(struct work_struct *work) { printk("In %s() \n",__func__);
mutex_lock(&rx_bh_mutex);
//Do something here
mutex_lock(&rx_bh_mutex); }
static irqreturn_t my_irq_handler(int irq, void *dev) { ……;
if(Rx Interrupt) schedule_work(&rx_work);
return IRQ_HANDLED; }
-- Thanks, Sekhar
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