On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 05:39:01PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > > You probably want to have a good look at usb_ethersubr.c - it does this > sort of thing already, but for different reasons. On FreeBSD, the usb > hardware interrupts ran (pre-SMPng) as bio, not net. All of the > assumptions, problems and workarounds for this from pre-SMPng are now > invalid or irrelevant. usb_ethersubr.c can be gutted right down now > since splnet and splbio are irrelevant. The problems that NetBSD > has to deal with are no longer the same for us. The softint stuff > is probably harmful for us because it would mean an *extra* context > switch. (from the uhci/ohci ithread to the swinet ithread). >
We still need to support -stable though, which has issues similar to NetBSD's. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
