differences between async_schedule and async_schedule_domain

shhuiw shhuiw at 163.com
Sat Jul 5 23:21:44 EDT 2014


Hi,

I'm not a driver developer and don't familiar with the usage of async function all.

But from git log, I can get



At 2014-07-06 00:55:32, "vichy" <vichy.kuo at gmail.com> wrote:
>hi all:
>I have some questions about:
>1. what is the difference between
>     async_schedule and async_schedule_domain

'git show 766ccb9' should give out more detailed explanation.

 > >2. when the program is triggered when it is registered as >async_schedule and async_schedule_domain > is it triggered at softirq stage?
I think async functions are delt with by workqueue, instead of irq/softirq.

193/* schedule for execution */194queue_work(system_unbound_wq,&entry->work);195

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