On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 04:04:23PM +, Mindaugas Rasiukevicius wrote:
David Holland dholland-t...@netbsd.org wrote:
NetBSD also has soft interrupts that have more process context than
ordinary interrupt handlers; instead of borrowing the context of
whatever's running when the
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 01:52:48PM -0600, Frank Zerangue wrote:
Help request -- Mutex(9) indicates that mutex replaces the spl(9) system.
Here are some general (non-NetBSD-specific) answers based on
underlying principles that will hopefully explain the situation better.
(1) When writing an
Thanks you David -- excellent explanation.
Frank
On Dec 31, 2009, at 5:51 PM, David Holland wrote:
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 01:52:48PM -0600, Frank Zerangue wrote:
Help request -- Mutex(9) indicates that mutex replaces the spl(9) system.
Here are some general (non-NetBSD-specific) answers