Philip Blundell (Philip.Blundell@pobox.com)
Mon, 12 Jan 1998 08:39:47 +0000
>On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Philip Blundell wrote:
>
>> Be warned that save_and_cli() is frowned upon by Linus, which is why I
>> took it out of the vger tree again.
>
>Oh? How come?
Alan explained that it's not so good on SMP. Linus wants people to use local
IRQ spinlocks instead. Take a look at the PLIP changes in 2.1.78 for an
example.
p.
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