On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Vimal <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Arun, > > > Have a look here, > > http://lwn.net/Articles/211279/ > > Thanks a lot for the link. However, I am still confused how one would > go about doing something like this using workqueues: > > performance critical path: (this is like a producer) > queue(work on a *particular data* D) > > worker thread: (this is like a consumer of queued work) > while(1) { > wait for work+data D on queue > perform work on data D > remove data D from queue > }
There is a default worker thread. Your driver will queue work. Work queue is an interface for deferring work to a kernel thread. If possible see work queue in Linux kernel development by Robert Love. He has explained it well. Or you can read it here, http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6916?page=0,0 Arun > > It is unclear how to do the above using workqueues. Are there some > examples for this new API? > > Thanks, > -- > Vimal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
