Augusto> On 3 Jul 1999, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> As far as I can see your patch adds local cli()s to the interrupt
>> handlers. This doesn't make too much sense, because they're
>> normally not reentrant (there will be no other interrupt for this
>> device as long as this one isn't acked). It only prevents
>> interrupts for other devices, which is bad for interrupt
>> latency. So your change is unnecessary.
Augusto> Sorry if it's my stupidy, but SMP machines can't cause
Augusto> interrupt reentrants?
A particular interrupt level/number currently being serviced will not
be regenerated before the first handler is finished. So you will not
get two interrupt #21's in parallel etc.
Jes
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