>>> "Lazy SPLs - The kernel no longer masks hardware events unless a >>> hardware event actually occurs, avoiding many expensive >>> operations." >> We've been doing it for as long as I can remember, at least as far >> back as 2.0.5, probably as far back as 1.x. > My earliest memory of it was as "Bruce's new interrupt code" for 386bsd. > It was part of the 386bsd patchkit I think.
Why mask out the interrupts at all, instead of queuing them in handler level? joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - jo...@gnu.org Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
