Re: your mail

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Tue, 8 May 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:

> On Tue, May 08 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > > Use a kernel thread? If you don't need to access user space, context
> > > switches are very cheap.
> > > 
> > > > So, what am I supposed to do to add a piece of driver code to the
> > > > run queue so it gets scheduled occasionally?
> > > 
> > > Several, grep for kernel_thread.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Jens Axboe
> > > 
> > 
> > Okay. Thanks. I thought I would have to do that too. No problem.
> 
> A small worker thread and a wait queue to sleeep on and you are all set,
> 10 minutes tops :-)
> 
> > It's a "tomorrow" thing. Ten hours it too long to stare at a
> > screen.
> 
> Sissy!
> 

Okay. I am now awake. I will now try the kernel thread. Looks
simple. Got to remember to kill it before/during module removal.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

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