Re: soft interrupts mutex condition variable

2010-01-21 Thread Frank Zerangue
I found the answer -- sorry for the noise :-) SOFTINT(9) The kernel does not allow software interrupts to use facilities or per- form actions that are likely to block for a significant amount of time. This means that it's not valid for a software interrupt to sleep on con- dition va

soft interrupts mutex condition variable

2010-01-20 Thread Frank Zerangue
As an adaptive mutex is the preferred synchronization mechanism between LWP's and soft interrupt handlers, is a condition variable wait allowed within a soft interrupt handler? Regards, Frank Zerangue