Re: [patch] killed tqueue_lock spinlock, Re: [patch] race-fix for bottom-half-functions [Re: Subtle

yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu
Sun, 31 Jan 1999 11:59:07 -0700 (MST)


>
> On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu wrote:
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> > called from irq context. I'd still like a no cli solution so there
> > does not need to be a separate rtl and vanilla queue task. Seems like
>
> I see your point, but now that I fixed it, it's still at least a nice
> performance optimization (and the new code is really nicer and very more
> fun ;). And you killed a __cli() in every run_task_queue() at least...

Actually, the code as rewritten will work from rt space, but shouldn't
it do a save_flags/restore_flags

>
> Andrea Arcangeli
>

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