Subject: Re: newlock
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/05/2006 16:17:48
On Sep 5, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> Another would be an iSCSI initiator where splbio() and splnet() get
> mingled. And heven help someone trying to do iSCSI over ppp. :-)
Sorry, this is really splbio() and splsoftnet().
What this really points to is "we do too much stuff in interrupt
context", and really ought to be deferring more to threads /
continuations / just-in-time processing.
-- thorpej