schedule_timeout(9) [suse man page]

SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT(9)						   Driver Basics					       SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT(9)

NAME

       schedule_timeout - sleep until timeout

SYNOPSIS

       signed long __sched schedule_timeout(signed long timeout);

ARGUMENTS

       timeout
	   timeout value in jiffies

DESCRIPTION

       Make the current task sleep until timeout jiffies have elapsed. The routine will return immediately unless the current task state has been
       set (see set_current_state).

       You can set the task state as follows -

       TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE - at least timeout jiffies are guaranteed to pass before the routine returns. The routine will return 0

       TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE - the routine may return early if a signal is delivered to the current task. In this case the remaining time in jiffies
       will be returned, or 0 if the timer expired in time

       The current task state is guaranteed to be TASK_RUNNING when this routine returns.

       Specifying a timeout value of MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT will schedule the CPU away without a bound on the timeout. In this case the return value
       will be MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT.

       In all cases the return value is guaranteed to be non-negative.

COPYRIGHT

Kernel Hackers Manual 2.6.					     July 2010						       SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT(9)

iv_task(3)						    ivykis programmer's manual							iv_task(3)

NAME

       iv_task_register, iv_task_unregister, iv_task_registered - deal with ivykis tasks

SYNOPSIS

       #include <iv.h>

       struct iv_task {
	       void	       *cookie;
	       void	       (*handler)(void *);
       };

       void IV_TASK_INIT(struct iv_task *task);
       void iv_task_register(struct iv_task *task);
       void iv_task_unregister(struct iv_task *task);
       int iv_task_registered(struct iv_task *task);

DESCRIPTION

       The  functions  iv_task_register  and  iv_task_unregister  register, respectively unregister, a task with the current thread's ivykis event
       loop.  iv_task_registered on a task returns true if that task is currently registered with ivykis.

       A task is like a timer, but with an immediate timeout.  When a task is registered, unless it is	unregistered  again  first,  the  callback
       function  specified  by	->handler  is guaranteed to be called once, in the thread that the task was registered in, some time after control
       returns to the ivykis main loop but before ivykis will sleep for more events, with ->cookie as its first and sole argument.  When this hap-
       pens, the task is transparently unregistered.

       Tasks  are  mainly used for scheduling code for execution where it is not appropriate to directly run that code in the calling context (for
       example, because the current context might be run as a callback function where the caller expects certain conditions  to  remain  invariant
       after the callback completes).

       The application is allowed to change the ->cookie and ->handler members at any time.

       A given struct iv_task can only be registered in one thread at a time, and a task can only be unregistered in the thread that it was regis-
       tered from.

       There is no limit on the number of tasks registered at once.

       See iv_examples(3) for programming examples.

SEE ALSO

       ivykis(3), iv_examples(3)

ivykis								    2010-08-15								iv_task(3)