Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 17:27:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new api for asynchronous task execution Message-ID: <200005171727.KAA06011@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005122041530.47945-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> from "Doug Rabson" at May 12, 2000 08:44:39 PM
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> I'm planning to add a new system to the kernel which should make it much > easier for drivers (especially loadable drivers) to use software > interrupts to implement split-level interrupt handlers. The api was > inspired by the Linux tqueue system but the implementation is quite > different. I would suggest that there is probably a lot to be learned from the NT split interrupt handling model, if the relative performance of NT and Solartis vs. BSD 4.4 based operating systems and Linux is any indicator. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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