Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 10 Sep 1997 07:56:04 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: interrupts in interrupt routines
Message-ID:  <19970910075604.SS25473@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199709100419.GAA20837@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; from Luigi Rizzo on Sep 10, 1997 06:19:15 %2B0200
References:  <19970909225801.RL53370@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199709100419.GAA20837@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
As Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> >        The system automati-
> >      cally arranges for interrupts in the xxx group to be called at
> >      a priority >= splxxx ().
> 
> does the >= make any sense since there is no ordering, just masks ?

Read the ``>='' as ``is or does include this priority group''.  There
are some priority groups that are really inclusive, like splhigh.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19970910075604.SS25473>