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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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To: Nikolai Saoukh <nms@otdel-1.org>
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Subject: Re: Is there spinlocks/semaphores available for drivers?
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:Subject says almost all. In anticipation of SMP I would like
:to avoid splxxx() at all in my driver. How can I do that? Let say
:for FreeBSD >= 4.0.
:
:Thanks

    It will probably be a months before you will be able to do that.  The
    mechanisms haven't even been built yet.  We will continue to use the
    spl*() calls for some time.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>


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