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From: Paolo Pisati <piso@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: PERFORCE change 102954 for review
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On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 11:56:27AM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
> Basically yes, the stuff run in the private taskq thread should run in
> the deferred interrupt context.  The only issue is how to handle beacon
> processing (and in the future UAPSD processing).  I'm not familiar with
> what's allowed to run in a filter routine but deferring the beacon frame
> generation is likely not going to work and the work done to post a
> beacon frame may do calls that are not permitted.  

a filter handler is just like a fast handler returning a value.

BTW i see many calls from ath_intr() to the blob hal interface,
are those functions blocking? 

bye
-- 

Paolo

Piso's first law: nothing works as expected!