From: Neil Horman <nhorman@lvl7•com>
To: Khai Trinh <kqtrinh@yahoo•com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists•linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: tasklets and waking up sleeping process question
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 19:38:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D2E16E1.3080602@lvl7.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020711224210.62434.qmail@web11505.mail.yahoo.com
You _can_ do either. Doing the later however, is more or less re-inventing the
wheel, as the tasklet mechanism is designed specifically so that you can do non
time-sensitive interrupt work (the tasklet runs in interrupt context, but with
interrupts still enabled). So going to the trouble to create a kernel thread to
pend on a semaphore to be unlocked by an interrupt handler top-half really
never makes sense, unless you need to be able to move your driver code between a
linux environment and a non-linux environment which doesn't have the concept of
tasklets. Even then, I'd still suggest that you put your code together in such
a way that when building for linux you use tasklets rather than a whole new
kernel thread.
Hope that helps!
Neil
Khai Trinh wrote:
> I have new to Linux. I am reading the Linux device
> driver book second eddition and am trying to make some
> sense out of it.
>
> I am trying to implement an interrupt handler. From
> the description in the book, it seems that one can go
> about implementing the bottom half either using the
> tasklets method or by waking up a sleeping process in
> the top half interrupt handler.
>
> Is what I understood correct or I am totally of the
> topics?
>
> When do you determine which method to implement for an
> interrupt handler?
>
> Regards,
> --Khai
>
>
>
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