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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 22:22:07 +0000
Subject: RE: [Patch] speed up interrupt handling
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>>>>> On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 08:27:40 +1100, Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au> said:

>>>>> "David" = David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> writes:

  David> So why is irq enabling/disabling on the critical path for
  David> this driver?

  Peter> Because IRQs are disabled for every hardware interrupt, and
  Peter> enabled after each interrupt returns.

OK, it's been really long since I worked on this, but AFAIR, for
level-triggered interrupts, there should be no masking/unmasking
during interrupt delivery.  What am I missing?

	--david