Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 May 2004 18:08:02 +0200 (CEST) | From | "Maciej W. Rozycki" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] io-apic cleanup #3, BK-curr |
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On Thu, 27 May 2004, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> io_apic_sync() was introduced in 2.1.104 and it was originally done for > masking and unmasking as well. Later the unmasking use got removed but > the masking use lingered around. I dont think it was ever justified to > do it and clearly since the lack of io_apic_sync() didnt break some of > the other writes we do to the IO-APIC registers, it must be unnecessary > in the masking case too. Maciej?
Go ahead, sure.
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