Re: Anyone know why the syscall interface is using the doretimechanism?

2000-03-25 Thread Matthew Dillon
Ah, excellent summary Bruce! Now I know what to look for and test re: syscall returns. I'm confident I can at least test for the cases without needing the MP lock, which is all we really need to be able to optimize the critical path. I have also successfully removed all the

Re: Anyone know why the syscall interface is using the doretimechanism?

2000-03-24 Thread Bruce Evans
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: > I understand why interrupts use the doreti mechanism. I don't understand > why the syscall interface traps have to use it. As far as I can tell, To handle AST's (for signals and forced context switches, etc), and to do the special stuff befo