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Date:      Fri, 14 Mar 1997 09:42:38 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: dscheck() and the processor level?
Message-ID:  <19970314094238.TL59733@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199703140233.VAA00748@lakes.water.net>; from Thomas David Rivers on Mar 13, 1997 21:33:57 -0500
References:  <199703140233.VAA00748@lakes.water.net>

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As Thomas David Rivers wrote:

> I don't think it's the case that this needs to be at splbio(), but
> could someone take a gander at that and let me know?  [I'm a little
> fuzzy on just exactly when you should set the processor level to "bio" -
> just what are we protecting when we do that?]

Disk interrupts.  Basically, all drivers in the config file with the
word "bio".

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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