Giant lock, bce and uhc using the same irq
Hans Petter Selasky
hselasky at c2i.net
Mon Nov 17 13:21:43 PST 2008
On Monday 17 November 2008, Ed Schouten wrote:
> * Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > P.S. In 8.0 there is a new USB stack that is Giant-free.
>
> I'm not sure this is completely true. Maybe HPS could explain it in more
> detail, but Giant still seems to be used pretty often.
All the interrupt handlers of the Host- and Device-controller drivers are free
from locking Giant when executing.
--HPS
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