Re: Re: [PATCH] removal of unnecessary irq save/restore in tasklet_hi_schedule

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Aug 01 2000 - 17:52:39 EST


> >fast, and at least the SCSI layer historically wanted the timer to tick
> >_while_ a SCSI interrupt is active, so you must not have a SCSI interrupt
> >interrupt the timer, because if that happens..)
>
> I think this ScsI uglyness is gone these days... I converted seagate.c to use delay loops because now SCSI calls driver with interrupts disabled...
>

Providing you arent fiddlign with the request queue or using scsi_done you
can drop the io_request lock and run with irq enabled in scsi

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