On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Manfred Spraul wrote:
>
> The _bh variants disable bottom half delivery [softirqs, tasklets and the
> old bottom halfs such as timers]. Within your bh handler you can use
> spin_lock() instead of spin_lock_bh().
it would appear that _bh variants disable bottom half delivery on the same
cpu - can't they be delivered on a different one? Or is the name
"local_bh_disable()" deceptive and really means "global_bh_disable()"?
Regards,
Tigran
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