On Tuesday 02 December 2008, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > Oh, so the kernel thread actually gets pre-empted(is that a word?) > once it has consumed its "time slice"?
And potentially at other times. When an IRQ arrives and is handled, that's a form of non-task preemption. And when that IRQ enables a higher-priority task, the lower priority one can be preempted in a more usual manner. > Do I need to turn on > pre-empt support in the kernel for this? To get some kinds of preemption, yes. But it's not strictly required. - Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ spi-devel-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spi-devel-general
