Question abut DRQ handler

Yuxin Ren <[email protected]> Tue, 24 Jun 2014 15:43:06 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.micro-kernel.l4.devel
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Hi,

When I go through the IPC code, I have some questions about dqr handler.
In the remote_ipc_send function within the thread-ipc.cpp file, I find a
comment

"  // trigger remote_ipc_receiver_ready path, because we may need to grab
locks
  // and this is forbidden in a DRQ handler. So transfer the IPC in usual
  // thread code. However, this induces a overhead of two extra IPIs."

I have some questions about this comment.

1. Why cannot we grab locks in a DRQ handler?
2. Where do we need to grab lock?
3. Why can extra IPI solve this problem?

Thank you very much.
Best,
Yuxin

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