On 04/12/2007, Andrew Doran <ad@netbsd.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 12:29:06PM -0600, David Young wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 06:21:59PM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
> > > - Soft interrupts are now threaded, so it's possible to take adaptive mutexes
> > >   and reader/writer locks from a soft interrupt (for example, in a callout).
> > >   These have no ordering constraint against kernel_lock and so are "deadlock
> > >   free" in that respect.
>
> Here is an article in Japanese on how the soft interrupts work, written
> by YAMAMOTO Takashi:
>
> http://www.valinux.co.jp/contents/tech/techlib/eos/softint/softint_01.html

translate.google.com actually does a reasonable job...

>
> Andrew
>


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