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To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
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Subject: Re: A new api for asynchronous task execution 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 12 May 2000 20:44:39 BST."
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Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 11:25:50 +0200
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005122041530.47945-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>, Dou
g Rabson writes:

>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!

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