From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 9 23:20:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA10046 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 23:20:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA10041 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 23:20:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA01282 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 08:20:35 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id HAA04278; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 07:56:04 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970910075604.SS25473@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 07:56:04 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: interrupts in interrupt routines References: <19970909225801.RL53370@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199709100419.GAA20837@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199709100419.GAA20837@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; from Luigi Rizzo on Sep 10, 1997 06:19:15 +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > The system automati- > > cally arranges for interrupts in the xxx group to be called at > > a priority >= splxxx (). > > does the >= make any sense since there is no ordering, just masks ? Read the ``>='' as ``is or does include this priority group''. There are some priority groups that are really inclusive, like splhigh. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)