Re: [Ilugc] freebsd interrupt handling

2010-09-24 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Eknath Venkataramani wrote: >> >> Okay. I guess I just have a really long night ahead. :) Thanks for the > reply anyway. Buddy, You gotta learn e-mail quoting. You have been in LUG long enough...so you have learnt by now. ;) Anyway just pulling your leg. Peopl

Re: [Ilugc] freebsd interrupt handling

2010-09-23 Thread Eknath Venkataramani
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Mohan L wrote: > > Third Edition of Linux Device Drivers, by Jonathan Corbet. > http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ > > Chapter 10 : Interrupt Handling > > It will give you much more information. > > Thank you. I was actually going through that chapter just a minute back

Re: [Ilugc] freebsd interrupt handling

2010-09-23 Thread Mohan L
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Eknath Venkataramani wrote: > This is my homework question and I need a pointer to know what I must look > for. > > How does FreeBSD 5.2.1 control the interrupt level? > For example, is it possible to block off network interrupts when servicing > a > clock interru

Re: [Ilugc] freebsd interrupt handling

2010-09-23 Thread Eknath Venkataramani
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Girish Venkatachalam < girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote: > In short I dunno. > > damn! > The long answer is that you should look at the FreeBSD kernel code. > > It is very big compared to OpenBSD and you will have to spend a long time. > > damn again! > Norm

Re: [Ilugc] freebsd interrupt handling

2010-09-23 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Eknath Venkataramani wrote: > This is my homework question and I need a pointer to know what I must look > for. > > How does FreeBSD 5.2.1 control the interrupt level? > For example, is it possible to block off network interrupts when servicing a > clock interrupt?

[Ilugc] freebsd interrupt handling

2010-09-23 Thread Eknath Venkataramani
This is my homework question and I need a pointer to know what I must look for. How does FreeBSD 5.2.1 control the interrupt level? For example, is it possible to block off network interrupts when servicing a clock interrupt? If so, how? How are interrupt threads managed (created/destroyed/schedu