While(1) in kernel space

[Paolo Doz]

Thanks for the infos, I'll try kernel thread or timer/softirq in the next
days.
I'll let you know which of them fit my problems.

I actually have about +/- 1msec of freedom (but still require more
investigation).

Paolo

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>
wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 08 July 2008, Grant Likely wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> You can use a kernel thread.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure how accurate this is, but here is some information about
> them:
> >>
> >>
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/articles/Technical/Linux_Kernel_Thread
> >
> > Not accurate at all. New code should use kthread_create, as documented in
> >
> > http://lwn.net/Articles/65178/
>
> Teach me to blindly use google.  Thanks Arnd.
>
> g.
>
> --
> Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
> Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
>
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