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Date:      Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:28:01 +1030
From:      "Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au>
To:        usb@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FAST Interrupt patch for usb
Message-ID:  <20041116065801.GG58198@squash.dsto.defence.gov.au>
In-Reply-To: <20041112.083950.81797260.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <20041112.083950.81797260.imp@bsdimp.com>

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Warner, for the sake of others reading the archives and myself, can you
please give us all a quick summary of what the diff is between "fast" and
"soft" interrupts ?

Cheers

 - aW

	0n Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 08:39:50AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: 

	Here's a patch that make the usb subsystem use fast interrupts and
	taskqueues.  The usb system already allows for soft interrupts, but
	this appears to be a little better.  I've not done a 4.x port, nor
	even bothered with supporting it.  Others are welcome to tweak that
	part of things.  I've been running these patches for a couple of
	months now.  This should help people that have usb and network shared.
	
	Comments?
	
	Warner



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