Subject: Re: scalability enhancements to pool(9)
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
List: tech-perform
Date: 11/09/2003 18:50:09
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 05:37:31PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> >   7.09      0.77     0.36                             Xspllower
> 
> Any thoughts about finding out where this is called from?

That's tough to say. It's called from splx(), but only if there are pending
interrupts. Could be from any splx(). If you want to know, copy/paste
spllower (and splraise) from the inlines in x86/include/intr.h into
real functions; this will show where they're called from.

- Frank

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Frank van der Linden                                            fvdl@netbsd.org
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