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NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     swi_add, swi_sched -- register and schedule software interrupt handlers

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

     #include <sys/param.h>
     #include <sys/bus.h>
     #include <sys/interrupt.h>

     extern    struct ithd *tty_ithd;
     extern    struct ithd *clk_ithd;
     extern    void *net_ih;
     extern    void *softclock_ih;
     extern    void *vm_ih;

     int
     swi_add(struct ithd **ithdp, const char *name, driver_intr_t handler,
	 void *arg, int pri, enum intr_type flags, void **cookiep);

     void
     swi_sched(void *handler, int flags);

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     These functions are used to register and schedule software interrupt handlers.
  Software interrupt handlers are attached to a software interrupt
     thread, just as hardware interrupt handlers are attached to a hardware
     interrupt thread.	Multiple handlers can be attached to the same thread.
     Software interrupt handlers can be used to queue up less critical processing
 inside of hardware interrupt handlers so that the work can be
     done at a later time.  Software interrupt threads are different from
     other kernel threads in that they are treated as an interrupt thread.
     This means that time spent executing these threads is counted as interrupt
 time, and that they can be run via a lightweight context switch.

     The swi_add() function is used to register a new software interrupt handler.
  The ithdp argument is an optional pointer to a struct ithd
     pointer.  If this argument points to an existing software interrupt
     thread, then this handler will be attached to that thread.  Otherwise a
     new thread will be created, and if ithdp is not NULL, then the pointer at
     that address to will be modified to point to the newly created thread.
     The name argument is used to associate a name with a specific handler.
     This name is appended to the name of the software interrupt thread that
     this handler is attached to.  The handler argument is the function that
     will be executed when the handler is scheduled to run.  The arg parameter
     will be passed in as the only parameter to handler when the function is
     executed.	The pri value specifies the priority of this interrupt handler
     relative to other software interrupt handlers.  If an interrupt thread is
     created, then this value is used as the vector, and the flags argument is
     used to specify the attributes of a handler such as INTR_MPSAFE.  The
     cookiep() argument points to a void * cookie.  This cookie will be set to
     a value that uniquely identifies this handler, and is used to schedule
     the handler for execution later on.

     The swi_sched() function is used to schedule an interrupt handler and its
     associated thread to run.	The cookie argument specifies which software
     interrupt handler should be scheduled to run.  The flags argument specifies
 how and when the handler should be run and is a mask of one or more
     of the following flags:

     SWI_DELAY	Specifies that the kernel should mark the specified handler as
		needing to run, but the kernel should not schedule the software
 interrupt thread to run.  Instead, handler will be executed
 the next time that the software interrupt thread runs
		after being scheduled by another event.  Attaching a handler
		to the clock software interrupt thread and using this flag
		when scheduling a software interrupt handler can be used to
		implement the functionality performed by setdelayed() in earlier
 versions of FreeBSD.

     The tty_ithd and clk_ithd variables contain pointers to the software
     interrupt threads for the tty and clock software interrupts, respectively.
  tty_ithd is used to hang tty software interrupt handlers off of
     the same thread.  clk_ithd is used to hang delayed handlers off of the
     clock software interrupt thread so that the functionality of setdelayed()
     can be obtained in conjunction with SWI_DELAY.  The net_ih, softclock_ih,
     and vm_ih handler cookies are used to schedule software interrupt threads
     to run for the networking stack, clock interrupt, and VM subsystem
     respectively.

RETURN VALUES    [Toc]    [Back]

     The swi_add() function returns zero on success and non-zero on failure.

ERRORS    [Toc]    [Back]

     The swi_add() function will fail if:

     [EAGAIN]		The system-imposed limit on the total number of processes
 under execution would be exceeded.  The limit
			is given by the sysctl(3) MIB variable KERN_MAXPROC.

     [EINVAL]		The flags argument specifies either INTR_ENTROPY or
			INTR_FAST.

     [EINVAL]		The ithdp argument points to a hardware interrupt
			thread.

     [EINVAL]		Either of the name or handler arguments are NULL.

     [EINVAL]		The INTR_EXCL flag is specified and the interrupt
			thread pointed to by ithdp already has at least one
			handler, or the interrupt thread already has an exclusive
 handler.

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

      
      
     ithread(9), taskqueue(9)

HISTORY    [Toc]    [Back]

     The swi_add() and swi_sched() functions first appeared in FreeBSD 5.0.
     They replaced the register_swi() function which appeared in FreeBSD 3.0
     and the setsoft*(), and schedsoft*() functions which date back to at
     least 4.4BSD.

BUGS    [Toc]    [Back]

     Most of the global variables described in this manual page should not be
     global, or at the very least should not be declared in <sys/interrupt.h>.


FreeBSD 5.2.1		       October 30, 2000 		 FreeBSD 5.2.1
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