Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 10:21:34 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Eric Peterson <ericp@troikanetworks.com> Cc: "'hackers@freebsd.org'" <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Deferred procedure call available? Message-ID: <200003301821.KAA00571@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Mar 2000 08:47:52 PST." <C7CA595F9B9FD311A40D009027DC4A856E7E3B@host03.troikanetworks.com>
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> Hi, > Is there a facility in FreeBSD to do a deferred procedure call? > Sometimes called "task queues" > or "deferred callbacks", they allow an interrupt handler to schedule > a (possibly predefined) function to > be called outside the context of the interrupt. > > I dug a bit and found some "software interrupt" functions (swi_*()), > but they are just a list of functions to be > called immediately (no deferral); they don't seem to be of help to > me. Try timeout(9) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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