Date: 30 Mar 2000 21:46:09 +0200 From: Samuel Tardieu <sam@inf.enst.fr> To: Eric Peterson <ericp@troikanetworks.com> Cc: "'hackers@freebsd.org'" <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Deferred procedure call available? Message-ID: <2000-03-30-21-46-09%2Btrackit%2Bsam@inf.enst.fr> In-Reply-To: Eric Peterson's message of "Thu, 30 Mar 2000 08:47:52 -0800" References: <C7CA595F9B9FD311A40D009027DC4A856E7E3B@host03.troikanetworks.com>
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>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Peterson <ericp@troikanetworks.com> 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
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