Subject: Re: newlock
To: Garrett D'Amore <garrett_damore@tadpole.com>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/04/2006 21:39:34
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 01:35:02PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> 
> Masking interrupts doesn't work on very high end SMP hardware.  You're
> still trying to design for systems with less than 8 CPUs.

You only need to mask it on the current cpu.
Which is all spl() has to do.

I've written for systems that did interrupt sharing.

	David

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