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SubjectRe: [PATCH] removal of unnecessary irq save/restore in tasklet_hi_schedule
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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