lots of malloc(M_WAITOK)'s in interrupt context from camisr

[Paul Richards]

On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 04:31:08PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> > John Baldwin writes:
> >
> >  > If you need to do more work in your interrupt routine than just wakeups
> >  > and dinking with registers, you can always wake up a software interrupt
> >  > handler or some other random kthread to do things that take a long amount
> 
> (This is about normal interrupt handlers, not INTR_FAST ones.)
> 
> > Dumb question: Exactly what is one allowed to do in an INTR_FAST
> > interrupt context?  Obviously, you can't sleep.  But can you call
> > wakeup()?

What exactly defines a INTR_FAST interrupt context in the first
place. Do we have any rules for when it should be used, it just
seems to me that all interrupt handlers should be INTR_FAST and
that we'd then just have interrupt handlers.

-- 
Paul Richards