Subject: Re: splsoftnet and spl settings.
To: Erik E. Fair <fair@clock.org>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/13/1997 17:53:26
>Are the conventions for when to use which splfoo() documented in section 9 y=
>et?
>
>        curious,

Perhaps we could fix some of the more egregious errors in those
conventions before documenting them.

For example, using splimp() to lock kernel memory allocation, makes
halfway-accurate profiling of kernel networking code infeasible.

I'd like to see a new `spl' for kernel memory allocation, distinct
from any other `priority level' to better suppport kernel profiling.