Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 23:18:50 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: rizzo@icir.org Cc: dchrist@cox.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Scheduling a recurring task in a device driver Message-ID: <20021021.231850.121892484.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20021021092312.D18652@carp.icir.org> References: <B1154A80CE56844B9EA4F77FAD2BA951F7EF@hobbes.drc.dhs.org> <20021021092312.D18652@carp.icir.org>
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Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> writes:
: 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.
Also, A software interrupt would be good too, depending on the nature
of the recurring event.
Warner
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