Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 16:40:18 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> To: Jake Burkholder <jburkhol@home.com> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, joel boutros <jdb@layer8.net>, smp@FreeBSD.ORG, jake@io.yi.org Subject: Re: Sept 5th patch ... Message-ID: <200009072340.QAA24513@pike.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <20000907063302.C2598BA6D@io.yi.org> from Jake Burkholder at "Sep 6, 2000 11:33:02 pm"
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Jake Burkholder wrote: > Well, interrupt threads are basically just high priority kernel threads. > There is code to deal with priority inversion, propogate_priority() in > sys/i386/i386/synch_machdep.c, but it is believed to still have bugs > that need to be worked out and is currently unused. > > Jake Which is to say: when we have tried turning it on the system locks up with interrupts disabled when entering multiuser mode. :P -- John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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