Detangle lwkt_switch() and the idle thread and consolidate sleep variables
Joerg Sonnenberger
joerg at britannica.bec.de
Sun Sep 2 08:21:17 PDT 2007
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 04:51:31PM +0200, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> Ah, I wasn't sure how interrupts are handled; I thought it might be a edge
> triggered interrupt which just gets ignored then, but if interrupts are
> queued, then this is no issue.
Even an edge interrupt would still be registered with the PIC/APIC. You
*can* lose an interrupt if a second edge interrupts occurs before the
interrupt is acked. That's all.
Joerg
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