Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 05:30:51 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha busdma_machdep.c clock.c int Message-ID: <200010290530.e9T5Ups01718@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> of "Tue, 24 Oct 2000 22:23:17 PDT." <XFMail.001024222317.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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[.....] > > Log: > > - Overhaul the software interrupt code to use interrupt threads for each > > type of software interrupt. Roughly, what used to be a bit in spending > > now maps to a swi thread. Each thread can have multiple handlers, just > > like a hardware interrupt thread. > > - Instead of using a bitmask of pending interrupts, we schedule the > > specific > > software interrupt thread to run, so spending, NSWI, and the shandlers > > array are no longer needed. We can now have an arbitrary number of > > software interrupt threads. When you register a software interrupt > > thread via sinthand_add(), you get back a struct intrhand that you pass > > to sched_swi() when you wish to schedule your swi thread to run. > > - Convert the name of 'struct intrec' to 'struct intrhand' as it is a bit > > more intuitive. Also, prefix all the members of struct intrhand with > > 'ih_'. > > - Make swi_net() a MI function since there is now no point in it being > > MD. > > > > Submitted by: cp > > This has been tested and run succesfully on both x86 SMP and alpha. > I don't presently have an ia64 simulator environment or a kernel build > environment set up yet, so I'm not entirely sure that I haven't broken > ia64. Chuck would be extremely glad to field any bug reports that you > may have with this. *duck* :-P I *think* this is broken for the ATM case with options ATM_CORE options ATM_IP options ATM_SIGPVC I'm not sure at the moment because I had other things to do and simply commented them out of my config for now (I'm saying, something broke the ATM stuff, and I suspect it was this commit, but it may not be). > -- > > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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