Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 08:02:01 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interrupt Context becomes a misnomer (was Re: Core recognizesSMPng tech lead ) Message-ID: <3C8CD4F9.F55D4655@mindspring.com> References: <20020311190003.W5788-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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Bruce Evans wrote: > > This isn't a particularly novel approach; Apple use it, BSD/OS is likely > > to go this way, and it's strongly encouraged by the IA64 interrupt model. > > I'm sure that plenty of other systems do things this way as well; I just > > don't have the research hours to track them down. > > Two-bit micros probably used it since they couldn't afford the > sophistication of the current model :-) FWIW, Windows uses this model. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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