From owner-freebsd-arch Sun May 14 5: 7:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from cmailg3.svr.pol.co.uk (cmailg3.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.195.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4CB537BA81 for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 05:06:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from n_hibma@calcaphon.com) Received: from [195.92.67.23] (helo=mail18.svr.pol.co.uk) by cmailg3.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 12qxAY-0002PC-00 for arch@freebsd.org; Sun, 14 May 2000 13:06:50 +0100 Received: from modem-123.porcupine-puffer.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.137.50.251] helo=henny.webweaving.org) by mail18.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 12qxAX-0005vC-00 for arch@freebsd.org; Sun, 14 May 2000 13:06:49 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by henny.webweaving.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA76989; Sat, 13 May 2000 15:30:16 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from n_hibma@calcaphon.com) Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 15:30:16 +0100 (BST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@localhost Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Doug Rabson , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A new api for asynchronous task execution In-Reply-To: <3564.958209950@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >I'm planning to add a new system to the kernel which should make it much > >easier for drivers (especially loadable drivers) to use software > >interrupts to implement split-level interrupt handlers. The api was > >inspired by the Linux tqueue system but the implementation is quite > >different. > > Yes, PLEASE! I rest my case (on the abuse this thing is going to get) ... :-) Nick -- n_hibma@webweaving.org n_hibma@freebsd.org USB project http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message