Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:11:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lots of malloc(M_WAITOK)'s in interrupt context from camisr Message-ID: <16047.59314.532227.475952@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030429140451.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <200304290438.h3T4cdHE069528@arch20m.dellroad.org> <XFMail.20030429140451.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin writes: > If you need to do more work in your interrupt routine than just wakeups > and dinking with registers, you can always wake up a software interrupt > handler or some other random kthread to do things that take a long amount Dumb question: Exactly what is one allowed to do in an INTR_FAST interrupt context? Obviously, you can't sleep. But can you call wakeup()? Drew
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