On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Martin Husemann wrote:
> >  * splnet is used for device driver interrupts
> >  * splsoftnet is used for network protocol processing
>
> Yes, see also spl(9) and it's HISTORY section.

I did, but test for splsoftnet wasn't clear that it's for protocol
processing. Should we add that to the manpage?

--- spl.9       16 Apr 2003 13:35:34 -0000      1.21
+++ spl.9       29 Mar 2004 12:33:59 -0000
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@
 blocks hard interrupts from disks and other mass-storage
 devices (IPL_BIO).
 .It Fn splsoftnet
-blocks soft network interrupts (IPL_SOFTNET).
+blocks soft network interrupts used for protocol processing (IPL_SOFTNET).
 Soft interrupts blocked by this priority are also blocked by all
 of the priorities listed above.
 .It Fn splsoftclock


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>