In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wes Peters writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>
>> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 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.
>
>Semaphores?
spl*() are semaphores.
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