Bruce Evans writes:
> > Is there an issue on non-x86 architectures?
>
> Not AFAIK. Not far, but SMP and FreeBSD's ithread implementation need
> something like an x86 ICU to work right. The interrupt mask must be
> global, and per-cpu ipls don't (naturally) work right even in the 1-cpu
> c
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Prafulla Deuskar wrote:
> All,
>
> foo_intr()
> {
> ...
> disable_intr;
> ...
> process data;
> ...
> enable_intr;
> }
>
> Most of the network drivers currently do something like this in the ISR.
> Is this really necessary as by the time ISR is called interrupts have already be
All,
foo_intr()
{
...
disable_intr;
...
process data;
...
enable_intr;
}
Most of the network drivers currently do something like this in the ISR.
Is this really necessary as by the time ISR is called interrupts have already been
disabled on APIC and disabling interrupts on network card has no eff
