[ipxe-devel] EFI TPL for efi_currticks()

Michael Brown mcb30 at ipxe.org
Wed Dec 16 14:51:03 UTC 2020


On 08/12/2020 16:22, Petr Borsodi wrote:
> why efi_currticks function restores the TPL to an "external" TPL (especially TPL_APPLICATION) and raises it back to TPL_CALLBACK?
> 
> This would not be necessary if the timer used TPL_NOTIFY for its event.

There are other system timers that may be running, that also need to be 
allowed to execute.

Michael


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