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Date:	Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:38:37 +0530
From:	"Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@...il.com>
To:	gshan <gshan@...atel-lucent.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bugs in __schedule()

On 6/26/07, gshan <gshan@...atel-lucent.com> wrote:
> I mean kernel thread could sleep, but tasklet can't. If so, it meet my
> requirements.

That's not really a justification to convert a tasklet to a kernel thread.
I suspect the simplest solution to your problem would be to simply
replace that semaphore with a spinlock. Other than that, we can't really
help without looking at code.
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