From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 30 11:46:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ada.eu.org (marvin.enst.fr [137.194.161.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCEE037BFE0 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:46:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sam@inf.enst.fr) Received: by ada.eu.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8A92619094; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 21:46:09 +0200 (CEST) To: Eric Peterson Cc: "'hackers@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Deferred procedure call available? References: Date: 30 Mar 2000 21:46:09 +0200 In-Reply-To: Eric Peterson's message of "Thu, 30 Mar 2000 08:47:52 -0800" Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Samuel Tardieu Organization: Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications Reply-To: Samuel Tardieu Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-WWW: http://www.inf.enst.fr/~tardieu/ X-Mail-Processing: Sam's procmail tools X-ICQ: 21547599 Message-Id: <2000-03-30-21-46-09+trackit+sam@inf.enst.fr> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Eric" == Eric Peterson writes: Eric> Sometimes called "task queues" or "deferred callbacks", they Eric> allow an interrupt handler to schedule a (possibly predefined) Eric> function to be called outside the context of the interrupt. (not an answer, just a suggestion) Is there anything you cannot do with a userland program, that will be resumed by the interrupt handler? Doing this even gives you the possibility of choosing the priority of the deferred handler relative to other handler and regular processes (as eCos does). Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@inf.enst.fr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message