Re: Detangle lwkt_switch() and the idle thread and consolidate sleep variables

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > The intel docs also indicate that there can be a MWAIT 
> > functionality to work with interrupts disabled and as interrupt as a break 
> > condition.  I'm not exactly sure how this would work, maybe the interrupt 
> > would be serviced as soon as you enable interrupts again?
>
> MWAIT itself would abort and the assumption is that you reenable
> interrupts directly after that. So that would catch the interrupt.

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.

cheers
  simon