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From: "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com>
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Subject: Another question on netisr processing.
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So I did find the default setting for netisr to defer processing to
swi_net but this brings up another question.  Are all the locks in the
network stacks of a type that could be used correctly at interrupt
conext if we wished to do that?

Thanks,
George