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Re: kernel_thread

On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Ashoke Saha wrote:

> I am not an OS guy and trying to learn some OS stuff. 
> When we call kernel_thread(), with a function pointer, when is that function
> called ? 
> Does it preemt the thread calling the kernel_thread()  -OR-

No it doesn't.

> the kernel just puts the new thread in run queue and runs it later based in
> scheduling algorithm ?

This is right.

In fact, kernel_thread() works in very similar way to fork() (respecitvely 
clone()) - allocated new task struct, fills in aproropriate values, and 
puts it on the runqueue.

-- 
JiKos.


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