From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Sep 7 16:40:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A515437B423; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 16:40:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA24513; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 16:40:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200009072340.QAA24513@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: Sept 5th patch ... In-Reply-To: <20000907063302.C2598BA6D@io.yi.org> from Jake Burkholder at "Sep 6, 2000 11:33:02 pm" To: Jake Burkholder Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 16:40:18 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Robert Watson , joel boutros , smp@FreeBSD.ORG, jake@io.yi.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jake Burkholder wrote: > Well, interrupt threads are basically just high priority kernel threads. > There is code to deal with priority inversion, propogate_priority() in > sys/i386/i386/synch_machdep.c, but it is believed to still have bugs > that need to be worked out and is currently unused. > > Jake Which is to say: when we have tried turning it on the system locks up with interrupts disabled when entering multiuser mode. :P -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message