Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:28:15 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.5.28 |
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On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
> I really think it is unwise to even imply that this kind of cli/sti > fixup can be done in some mindless manner, it really can't :-)
i think the networking code is a special case - nothing else relies on the interaction of timers and IRQ contexts in such a deep way. (which it does for performance reasons.) I'd say 99% of all cli()/sti() users are in the 'introduce a per-driver or per-subsystem lock' league Linus mentioned.
Ingo
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