Subject: Re: intlock
To: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/23/2004 14:37:01
Wait, I just realized something: currently, the kernel lock is
only taken once for a chain of shared interrupts. This way,
it will be taken for each individual call.

I'm not sure if I like that.. though with MP-safe interrupt handlers,
we'd need this construct anyway.. Hm.

Then again, for MP system with ioapics, the chance of shared interrupts
is a lot smaller.

Well, I'm not sure. Do you have an MP system with a shared interrupt
line you can test on?

- Frank