why tasklet cant sleep

santhosh kumars karuna.linux at gmail.com
Thu Nov 10 11:38:00 EST 2011


hi,
can any one please explain why tasklets cant sleep.softirqs and
tasklets processing aided by the a set of per processor
kernel threads(ksoftirqd) so it means tasklets/softirqs run in process
context. it means tasklet can sleep right?
thanks,
karunakar.



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