[openbeosnetteam] Re: Dragonfly or FreeBSD nestack? was Re: Mailing lists and network team questions
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeosnetteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 16:47:19 +0100 CET
"Joseph Liu" <froseph@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The only way I can see being unable to interrupt a thread with tokens
> is if the interrupt reqires the tokens. The only other part of api is
> critical sections which tell the interrput thread to reschedule after
> the critical section is over. Just wondering I have a misconception
> somewhere and what your thoughts are on the subject.
As stated by Matt Dillon, non-interrupt threads cannot be interrupted
by other non-interrupt threads - that's not preemptive multi-threading,
that's just like disabling interrupts on one CPU without the side
effect of blocking real interrupts. That's why I referred to the big
giant lock.
Bye,
Axel.
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