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Re: Interrupt flow in the NetBSD kernel



Hi Matt,

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 08:01:47AM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
> IMO, softints are an abberation and should really be thread priorities and
> dealt by the thread scheduler.

Each level of softint as a kernel thread that gets woken up by condition
variables?

Could in a virtualisation context those threads also be used and be woken by
signalling the relevant condition variable on reception of say an virtio push?

With regards,
Reinoud

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