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authorjhb <jhb@FreeBSD.org>2002-10-11 19:45:19 +0000
committerjhb <jhb@FreeBSD.org>2002-10-11 19:45:19 +0000
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SWI_SWITCH and SWI_NOSWITCH were OBE a long time ago.
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diff --git a/share/man/man9/swi.9 b/share/man/man9/swi.9
index 360253f..2f0faa9 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/swi.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/swi.9
@@ -123,16 +123,7 @@ The
.Fa flags
argument specifies how and when the handler should be run and is a mask of one
or more of the following flags:
-.Bl -tag -width SWI_NOSWITCH
-.It Dv SWI_SWITCH
-Specifies that the kernel should schedule the software interrupt thread
-associated with the specified handler to run. If lightweight context switches
-are in place, then the kernel will switch to this thread and run it
-immediately.
-.It Dv SWI_NOSWITCH
-Specifies that the kernel should schedule the software interrupt thread
-associated with the specified handler to run, but it should not attempt to
-switch to the thread immediately.
+.Bl -tag -width SWI_DELAY
.It Dv 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.
@@ -142,8 +133,10 @@ 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 previously performed by
-.Fn setdelayed .
+functionality performed by
+.Fn setdelayed
+in earlier versions of
+.Fx .
.El
.Pp
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