Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 13:06:11 -0400 From: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@unixdaemons.com> To: Maksim Yevmenkin <myevmenk@exodus.net> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fast interrupts Message-ID: <20020826130611.A48166@unixdaemons.com> In-Reply-To: <3D6A5A47.57672729@exodus.net>; from myevmenk@exodus.net on Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:41:43AM -0700 References: <XFMail.20020826112635.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <3D6A5A47.57672729@exodus.net>
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On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:41:43AM -0700, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > > > > On 26-Aug-2002 M. Warner Losh wrote: > > > can you call wakeup(9) from a fast interrupt handler? > > [ ...] > > > > The only reason I ask is because sio seems to go out of its way to > > > schedule a soft interrupt to deal with waking up processes, which then > > > calls wakeup... > > > > Since wakeup only needs a spin lock, it is probably ok. You just can't call > > anything that would sleep (in any interrupt handler) or block on a non-spin > > mutex. > > what is the general locking technique for interrupt handlers? > there must be some sort of locking, right? You are allowed to use mutex locks (both spin and MTX_DEF), only you are only allowed to user the former for fast interrupt handlers. -- Bosko Milekic * bmilekic@unixdaemons.com * bmilekic@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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