On 26-Aug-2002 Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: > Bosko Milekic wrote: >> >> On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:41:43AM -0700, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: >> > John Baldwin wrote: >> > > >> > > On 26-Aug-2002 M. Warner Losh wrote: >> > > > can you call wakeup(9) from a fast interrupt handler? >> > >> > [ ...] >> > >> > > > The only reason I ask is because sio seems to go out of its way to >> > > > schedule a soft interrupt to deal with waking up processes, which then >> > > > calls wakeup... >> > > >> > > Since wakeup only needs a spin lock, it is probably ok. You just can't call >> > > anything that would sleep (in any interrupt handler) or block on a non-spin > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > my understanding is that John was talking about any > interrupt handler. Not just fast interrupt hander.
Yes. When you block on a MTX_DEF mutex, that is not considered "sleeping" for the purposes of that statement. Sleeping is when you are in SSLEEP (well, what used to be called SSLEEP). >> > > mutex. >> > >> > what is the general locking technique for interrupt handlers? >> > there must be some sort of locking, right? >> >> You are allowed to use mutex locks (both spin and MTX_DEF), only you >> are only allowed to user the former for fast interrupt handlers. > > thanks, > max -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
