In article <20010412173208.T443@dr-evil.shagadelic.org>,
Jason R Thorpe  <thorpej@zembu.com> wrote:
> In the mean time, NetBSD introduced splvm(), which took over the job
> of "block interrupts from devices that perform memory allocation".
> You must admit, splvm() is a better name for that function than splimp() :-)

FYI, spl(9) (as of ~week ago) still talks about splimp() performing this
task, and mentions splvm() not at all...