Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261446AbVALUoh (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:44:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261436AbVALUlR (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:41:17 -0500 Received: from mail.inter-page.com ([207.42.84.180]:62735 "EHLO mail.inter-page.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261427AbVALUkB (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:40:01 -0500 From: "Robert White" To: "'selvakumar nagendran'" Cc: Subject: RE: pipe_wait illustration needed Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:39:53 -0800 Organization: Casabyte, Inc. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 In-Reply-To: <20050112044259.53078.qmail@web60609.mail.yahoo.com> X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1432 Lines: 55 I'd start with this book: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive2/ It does an execelent job of describing virtually the whole topic. I use it all the time. After that it's just a matter of going to the book store and seeing which books make the most sense to you. Rob White, Casabyte, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: selvakumar nagendran [mailto:kernelselva@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 8:43 PM To: Robert White Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: pipe_wait illustration needed --- Robert White wrote: In order to understand the calling of schedule() you have to think in terms of time and strangers. In particular time passing irregularly and other programs/events coming along and changing your state. There are lots of good books that will do a better version of explaining all this stuff that I, but I will give you --------- thank u for ur help. Can u give me the names of some of those books so that I can get additional information from them? Regards, selva __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/