Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:29:42 +0200 | From | Richard Zidlicky <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] removal of unnecessary irq save/restore in tasklet_hi_schedule |
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On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 05:28:57PM +0100, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > We use the interrupt blocking hardware to make sure that as long > > as irq A is running, further instances of irq A are blocked. OTHER > > interrupts can still happen. > > I thought this depended on whether SA_INTERRUPT is passed or is this not > the case anymore (it was the case in 2.2.x). I.e.
more often the irq handler plays with sti() and save/restore_flags() itself. Caused me quite some headaches with ide drivers :-(
Bye Richard
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