On Jun 23, 2015, at 12:17 PM, Reinoud Zandijk rein...@netbsd.org wrote:
Hi Matt,
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 01:42:38PM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
On Jun 21, 2015, at 12:02 PM, Reinoud Zandijk rein...@netbsd.org wrote:
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 08:01:47AM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
IMO,
Hi Matt,
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 01:42:38PM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
On Jun 21, 2015, at 12:02 PM, Reinoud Zandijk rein...@netbsd.org wrote:
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 08:01:47AM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
IMO, softints are an abberation and should really be thread priorities
and dealt by
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 08:01:47AM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
On Jun 21, 2015, at 7:30 AM, Kamil Rytarowski n...@gmx.com wrote:
I have got few questions regarding the interrupt flow in the kernel.
Please tell whether my understanding is correct.
You are confusing interrupts with
On 22.06.2015 19:07, David Young wrote:
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 08:01:47AM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
On Jun 21, 2015, at 7:30 AM, Kamil Rytarowski n...@gmx.com wrote:
I have got few questions regarding the interrupt flow in the kernel.
Please tell whether my understanding is correct.
You
On Jun 21, 2015, at 12:02 PM, Reinoud Zandijk rein...@netbsd.org wrote:
Hi Matt,
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 08:01:47AM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
IMO, softints are an abberation and should really be thread priorities and
dealt by the thread scheduler.
Each level of softint as a kernel
I have got few questions regarding the interrupt flow in the kernel.
Please tell whether my understanding is correct.
There are software and hardware interrupts.
Part of the hardware interrupts are maskable with the spl(9) levels.
Some are unmaskable and must be handled unconditionally, like the
On Jun 21, 2015, at 7:30 AM, Kamil Rytarowski n...@gmx.com wrote:
I have got few questions regarding the interrupt flow in the kernel.
Please tell whether my understanding is correct.
You are confusing interrupts with exceptions. Interrupts are
asynchronous events. Exceptions are
On 21.06.2015 17:01, Matt Thomas wrote:
On Jun 21, 2015, at 7:30 AM, Kamil Rytarowski n...@gmx.com wrote:
I have got few questions regarding the interrupt flow in the kernel.
Please tell whether my understanding is correct.
You are confusing interrupts with exceptions. Interrupts are
Hi Matt,
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 08:01:47AM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
IMO, softints are an abberation and should really be thread priorities and
dealt by the thread scheduler.
Each level of softint as a kernel thread that gets woken up by condition
variables?
Could in a virtualisation context
