From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 30 11:15: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mg137-078.ricochet.net [204.179.137.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7A0537BCF9 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:14:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA00571; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 10:21:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200003301821.KAA00571@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Eric Peterson Cc: "'hackers@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Deferred procedure call available? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Mar 2000 08:47:52 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 10:21:34 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi, > Is there a facility in FreeBSD to do a deferred procedure call? > Sometimes called "task queues" > or "deferred callbacks", they allow an interrupt handler to schedule > a (possibly predefined) function to > be called outside the context of the interrupt. > > I dug a bit and found some "software interrupt" functions (swi_*()), > but they are just a list of functions to be > called immediately (no deferral); they don't seem to be of help to > me. Try timeout(9) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message