Re: when or where can the case occur in "linux kernel development " about "kernel preemption"?

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Sat. wrote:
the case about kernel preemption as follow :

the book said "when a process that has a higher priority than the
currenty running process is awakened ".

but I can think about when such case can occur , could you give me an example ?

There may be others, but one common case is when a hardware interrupt causes the higher priority process to become runnable. Some examples of this would be a network packet arriving, or the expiry of a hardware timer.

Chris
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