Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:23:13 -0700 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> To: David Christensen <dchrist@cox.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Scheduling a recurring task in a device driver Message-ID: <20021021092312.D18652@carp.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <B1154A80CE56844B9EA4F77FAD2BA951F7EF@hobbes.drc.dhs.org>; from dchrist@cox.net on Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 09:20:52AM -0700 References: <B1154A80CE56844B9EA4F77FAD2BA951F7EF@hobbes.drc.dhs.org>
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On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 09:20:52AM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> A device driver I'm porting from Linux uses tasklets to schedule a
> recurring
> event to work around a hardware bug. What would be the equivalent in
> FreeBSD?
a timeout() call will do (at most once per tick). grep for "timeout("
in most of device drivers to see how to use it.
cheers
luigi
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