FreeBSD spinlock - compatibility layer

Julian Elischer julian at freebsd.org
Fri May 24 01:42:23 UTC 2013


On 5/22/13 2:31 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 22/05/2013 09:14 Orit Moskovich said the following:
>>  From what I've read in "FreeBSD - device drivers" book by Joseph Kong on
>> interrupt handling, you cannot voluntarily context switch (that is, sleep) in
>> interrupt threads .
> See the table at the end of locking(9) manual page.
>
John is updating that table and has promised (nudge nudge) to get it 
up to date,
but I think that it still is correct for what it says. (there is new 
stuff to add).



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