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