Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 17:41:26 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Aniruddha Bohra <bohra@cs.rutgers.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interrupt threads Message-ID: <20030423004126.GA66282@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <3EA5B8CF.7080803@cs.rutgers.edu> References: <3EA5B8CF.7080803@cs.rutgers.edu>
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--J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 05:49:03PM -0400, Aniruddha Bohra wrote: > 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. This question would probably be better asked on the SMP list than the generic tech support mailing list. Kris --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+peE2Wry0BWjoQKURAmTSAJwJ1k9E6UuvSUO/OEPVUaxzJhzi2QCgvTIs 2yB3/jPCamxHiSrbiXvONDQ= =0YYf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN--
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