[parisc-linux] 2.4.18-pa62 acenic-0.91

Grant Grundler grundler@dsl2.external.hp.com
Sun, 04 Aug 2002 01:14:06 -0600


Grant Grundler wrote:
> Privately, Mathew Wilcox observed cli() is an obsolete interface
> and doesn't scale well on SMP boxes.

Matthew,
*sigh*. I looked at the code and it uses __cli() (not cli()).
On parisc thats equivalent to local_irq_disable().
Should Jes be using local_irq_disable() directly?

thanks,
grant