<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 1:47 PM, anish kumar </div><div class="gmail_quote">.<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Timer interrupts is supposed to cause scheduling and scheduler may or<br>
may not pick up your last process(we always use the term "task" in<br>
kernel space) after handling timer interrupt.<br>
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</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sorry if I may disagree, correct me if wrong. Timer interrupt and scheduler is two different thing. I just counted in the "drivers" subdirectory, there are at least more than 200 places where "setup_timer()" is called, and these have nothing to do with scheduling. For eg, heartbeat operation etc. Not sure I misunderstood something?</div>
<div><br></div></div>-- <br>Regards,<br>Peter Teoh