yield() in kernel CAN'T yield control for MOD_LOAD thread

[yangshazhou at hotmail.com]

>On Wednesday 25 August 2004 03:06 am, yangshazhou at hotmail.com wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>     This problem delay me for quite a long time.
>>     I've built two klds, I'd like to see the result one's running to the
>> other's. In one kld's MOD_LOAD subroutine, I make a long 'for' loop, in
>> which it DELAY(1000) and then call yield(curthread,NULL). When the module
>> was loaded by kldload, the system failed to response until the loop quit.
>> The loop seems like that:
>>  for(i=0;i<8000;i++){
>>     ......
>>   DELAY(1000);
>>   yield(curthread,NULL);
>>  }
>>
>     My system is 5.2.1-release. Thanks.
>
>You could try having the first one wait on a condition variable that the
>second module's MOD_LOAD does a wakeup on.You mean, msleep(ident,...) in
one module and wakeup(ident) in the other till the second module run out?But
why yield() can't yield? It's because of the priority?
I'll try msleep/wakeup anyway, thanks.
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