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! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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