Re: calling kthread_create() from interrupt thread

From: Chris Wright
Date: Tue Jun 15 2004 - 14:35:21 EST


* Robin Holt (holt@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> Currently, the interrupt handler wakes a thread sleeping on a
> wait_event_interruptible(). This wakeup is taking approx 35uSec. Dean
> is looking for a lower latency means of doing the wakeup.

I can't imagine adding thread creation, etc to the mix is going to improve
latency.

thanks,
-chris
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