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Re: [Xen-devel] fooey. no interrupts.

To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] fooey. no interrupts.
From: ron minnich <rminnich@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 07:50:32 -0600 (MDT)
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On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Keir Fraser wrote:

> Unmasking evtchn_upcall_mask and evtchn_mask[] need special attention
> because a pending interrupt will not automatically get raised as it
> would on real hardware ---- think of it like an edge-triggered
> interrupt where you lost the edge because the line was masked. So what
> we do in Linux is:

in any event, if clock interrupts are enabled, shouldn't I get an 
interrupt 500 ms later? Or am I misreading the code.

ron
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