Re: Linux kernel preemption (kernel 2.6 of course)

[Ingo Molnar]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Oleg OREL wrote:

> I was browsing linux kernel to undetsnand how kernel preemption does
> work. I was hacking around schedulee_tick and other functions called out
> of timer interrupt and was unable to found any call to schedule() or
> switch_to() to peempt currently running task, instead just mangling
> around current and inactive runqueues.

the timer interrupt indeed cannot reschedule because interrupt contexts
must never schedule. But the timer interrupt does have the ability to
reschedule the currently running task, via setting the 'need resched'
flag:

                set_tsk_need_resched(p);

this flag then gets detected by the entry.S 'return from interrupt' code
[right when the timer irq returns] which then calls schedule().

	ingo
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