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Date:      Tue, 19 May 2009 08:25:13 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
Subject:   Re: Which priority do taskqueues have?
Message-ID:  <200905190825.13595.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200905190923.39298.hselasky@c2i.net>
References:  <200905190923.39298.hselasky@c2i.net>

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On Tuesday 19 May 2009 3:23:39 am Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm about to factor out some taskqueue-alike code from USB(II) and I need to 
> know at which priority taskqueues are running. I know there is a priority 
> argument which can be specified for TASK_INIT(), but tracing in the code 
> shows that this is just a queue-priority. At which priority level is 
> taskqueue code being [guaranteed to] run?

It depends on the queue I think.  taskqueue_swi runs as a SWI and thus at a 
software-interrupt priority.  taskqueue_thread runs at the default priority 
for kernel threads (currently a rather bogus PVM I think).

-- 
John Baldwin



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