>>>>> On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 13:19:37 +1000, Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> said: Keith> spin_lock_irqsave() on a contended lock leaves interrupts disabled Keith> while waiting for the lock. If the interrupts were enabled before Keith> spin_lock_irqsave then this has the nasty side effect of preventing Keith> interrupt handling while waiting for the lock. Change the contention Keith> path to enable interrupts if it is safe to do so, allowing the cpu to Keith> process interrupts while waiting for the lock. Seems like a reasonable thing to me. I'm fine with the ia64-specific bits, so I guess the only question is whether the linux/spinlock.h bits will be accepted. --david - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Thu Apr 8 20:12:53 2004
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