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Subject: RE: mutex/ithread jitters?
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John Baldwin writes:
 > 
 > Sounds like lost interrupts.  Possibly the interrupt isn't being enabled
 > properly after the ithread finishes running the handler.

Maybe it is time to accept defeat on squelching interrupts at their source 
and leave the IPL raised until the handler is run?

Drew


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