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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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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

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