Re: SA_INTERRUPT

2000-10-02 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > When that is done, please don't call __sti() directly and use some macro > > that can be overridden by the architectures. > > What do you have in mind while making this suggestion? The irq highlevel layer > is pretty much architectural indipen

Re: SA_INTERRUPT

2000-10-02 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 09:45:36PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > When that is done, please don't call __sti() directly and use some macro > that can be overridden by the architectures. What do you have in mind while making this suggestion? The irq highlevel layer is pretty much architectural indip

Re: SA_INTERRUPT

2000-10-02 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > Comments? When that is done, please don't call __sti() directly and use some macro that can be overridden by the architectures. bye, Roman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [E

Re: SA_INTERRUPT

2000-10-01 Thread Torben Mathiasen
On Sun, Oct 01 2000, Torben Mathiasen wrote: > On Sat, Sep 30 2000, Sandy Harris wrote: > > Don Becker has some text at: > > > > http://www.scyld.com/expert/irq-conflict.html > > > > which includes a section: > > > > > Why SA_INTERRUPT in the SCS

Re: SA_INTERRUPT

2000-10-01 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 09:50:21PM -0400, Sandy Harris wrote: > Don Becker has some text at: > > http://www.scyld.com/expert/irq-conflict.html > > which includes a section: > > > Why SA_INTERRUPT in the SCSI drivers is a Bad Thing > > > ... it could potential

Re: SA_INTERRUPT

2000-10-01 Thread Torben Mathiasen
On Sat, Sep 30 2000, Sandy Harris wrote: > Don Becker has some text at: > > http://www.scyld.com/expert/irq-conflict.html > > which includes a section: > > > Why SA_INTERRUPT in the SCSI drivers is a Bad Thing > > > ... it could potentially have a very negat

SA_INTERRUPT

2000-09-30 Thread Sandy Harris
Don Becker has some text at: http://www.scyld.com/expert/irq-conflict.html which includes a section: > Why SA_INTERRUPT in the SCSI drivers is a Bad Thing > ... it could potentially have a very negative impact on all other interrupt-driven > kernel service. That includes just about e