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Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 22:16:43 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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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!

-- 
Jens Axboe