Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 17:49:03 -0400 From: Aniruddha Bohra <bohra@cs.rutgers.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Interrupt threads Message-ID: <3EA5B8CF.7080803@cs.rutgers.edu>
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Hello
Reading the implementation of interrupt handling on i386,
and reading Greg Lehey's Usenix paper on FreeBSD 5.0 SMP
implementation, I understand that interrupt handling is done in
process context. This is needed partly to support sleeping while
handling the interrupt because GIANT needs to be locked and
a sleep is possible there.
My question is after all subsystems that lock giant are made
INTR_MPSAFE will the implementation go back to non-process
context interrupt handling (as in older versions) ?
Moreover, will the locking be per-IRQ or there will be a
global IRQ lock for ensuring atomic access to the ISRs ?
Finally why do we need to create a kernel thread for
each IRQ - why can't one kernel thread handle all the
IRQs ?
Please cc me as I am not subscribed.
Thanks
Aniruddha
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