Re: [RFC] BH removal text

Matthew Wilcox (willy@debian.org)
Wed, 3 Jul 2002 12:15:57 +0100


On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 12:21:26AM -0700, george anzinger wrote:
> It should also be noted that none of these is entered if a
> cli is in effect. This is the global cli and inhibits BHs
> on all cpus.

global cli() is so heaviy deprecated, it isn't even funny. i know
mingo has a patch to remove it entirely. if you want to ensure that
no softirq/tasklet/timer/... is run, use spin_lock_bh(). I'll add this
information, thanks!

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