Security Software—ASD Hardware Services
Intel
®
EP80579 Software for Security Applications on Intel
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QuickAssist Technology
PG August 2009
36 Order Number: 320183
The sequence diagram in Figure 7 illustrates how this operates:
Table 8. QAT-AL ISR Primitives
Function/Symbol Description Usage
QatComms_intr
This is the QAT-AL main ISR
function
Used by ASD to bind to the Ring
Controller IRQ for processing of
interrupts on rings 0-31.
QatComms_bh_handler
This is the QAT-AL Bottom Half
function
Used by ASD to bind to the
Bottom Half Interrupt Handler
for processing of interrupts on
rings 0-31.
QatComms_bh_schedule_register
This function call enables the
ASD register a function that will
allow QAT-AL to schedule the
Bottom Half Interrupt Handler