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Date:      Mon, 20 Mar 2000 18:01:23 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: splFoo() question 
Message-ID:  <19535.953571683@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Mar 2000 13:31:28 MST." <200003182031.NAA97975@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <200003182031.NAA97975@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes:

>I'd like to be able to do some simple spl locking in a driver that I'm
>writing.  While I could go the splhigh() route, I'm concerned that
>spending lots of time at splhigh could cause problems, and some of my
>critical sections look to be very expensive.  They only need
>protection against the card itself, not against the entire system.  It
>just seems to be an overly large hammer.

I miss this too.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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