[PATCH RFC 0/4] Scheduler idle notifiers and users

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Feb 15 22:31:37 EST 2012


On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 16:01 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> Thing is, the scheduler doesn't care about completion, all it needs is
> to be able to kick-start the thing atomically. So you really have to
> wait for it or can you do an interrupt driven state machine?

Or the scheduler callback could schedule a wq to do the job ?

Cheers,
Ben.





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