linux-kernel - Re: Differnce between kthread and worqueue ?

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Date:	Thu, 13 May 2010 10:12:32 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	ratheesh k <ratheesh.ksz@...il.com>
CC:	linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Differnce between kthread and worqueue ?

On 05/13/2010 10:10 AM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 05/13/2010 09:25 AM, ratheesh k wrote:
>> What is the real difference between these ? . I know that workqueue
>> run on process context and can sleep ..what about kthread ?
> 
> Well, workqueue runs in a kthread called name_of_your_workqueue/cpu
> ("/cpu" is omitted when singlethread wq). 

(And when you use just schedule_work and create no workqueue for
yourself, it's "events/cpu" kthread.)

-- 
js
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