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SubjectRe: no DRQ after issuing WRITE was Re: 2.4.23-uv3 patch set released
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On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 17:54, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Interrupts are _not_ disabled here, very much on purpose. If they were,
> then "jiffies" wouldn't update, and the timeouts wouldn't work.
>
> This is what that _stupid_ "local_irq_set()" function does: it saves the
> old irq masking state, and then it enables it.
>
> The whole concept doesn't make any sense. If you enable interrupts, there
> is little point in saving the callers irq mask, since it already got
> deflated.

Ah, OK. local_irq_set() is worthless, then.

Curious to see the results of upping the timeout.

Rob Love


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