Re: Delay in a tasklet.
From: Mark Gross (mgross_at_linux.intel.com)
Date: 03/31/05
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To: "Bouchard, Sebastien" <Sebastien.Bouchard@ca.kontron.com>, "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:48:25 -0800
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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