Can a Bottom half be scheduled from a kernel thread

Arun S. Kumar arunsk.tec at gmail.com
Mon May 12 19:49:19 EDT 2014


Hi Vishwas,

>From what I have read, tasklet run in interrupt context and work queues run
via kernel thread in process context. So, you cannot schedule a tasklet on
a kernel thread.
 Thanks,
Arun

On May 12, 2014 5:06 PM, "Vishwas Srivastava" <vishu.kernel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>             This may sound a dumb question. I just want to know if a
> tasklet can be scheduled from a kernel thread.
> what are the pros and crons of doing so?
> thanks,
> Vishwas S
>
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