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Re: splxxx replacements?


From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:38:22 -0800 (PST)

:That's basically the equivalent of splhigh() and splx(): isn't that 
:worse than blocking individual levels?

    No, not really.   We lose a little handling devices without DMA, but
    that's basically just serial ports and it isn't worth the aggravation of
    trying to manage per-interrupt masking.  The per-interrupt (spl) masking
    also doesn't work well in a SMP environment anyway.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>



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