> >
> > On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > > Yes, and I believe that this is what's broken about the SCSI midlayer. The the
> > > > io_request_lock cannot be completely released in a SCSI HBA because the flags
> > >
> > > You can drop it with spin_unlock_irq and that is fine. I do that with no
> > > problems in the I2O scsi driver for example
> >
> > I am (like, I think I *finally* got locking sorta right in my QLogic driver),
> > but doesn't this still leave ints blocked for this CPU at least?
>
> spin_unlock_irq() does a __sti()
> spin_unlock() doesn't.
Umm. Okay, but you haven't changed your processor priority though, right?
(I just don't *get* i386 stuff... I'll go off and ponder SParc code - &that& I
understand).
-matt
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