Can a Bottom half be scheduled from a kernel thread

[Pranay Srivastava]

On May 13, 2014 2:36 AM, "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.

You can do tasklet_schedule in case I am getting your question.

> what are the pros and crons of doing so?

Don't sleep or schedule the tasklet code. It needs to be atomic since it
runs via TASKLET_SOFTIRQ.

> thanks,
> Vishwas S
>
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