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From: Rob Love <rml@ximian.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
	Daniel Tram Lux <daniel@starbattle.com>,
	steve@drifthost.com, James Bourne <jbourne@hardrock.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Gergely Tamas <dice@mfa.kfki.hu>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Subject: Re: no DRQ after issuing WRITE was Re: 2.4.23-uv3 patch set released
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 17:58:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1072825101.4350.55.camel@fur> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0312301452370.2065@home.osdl.org>

On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 17:54, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Interrupts are _not_ disabled here, very much on purpose. If they were, 
> then "jiffies" wouldn't update, and the timeouts wouldn't work.
> 
> This is what that _stupid_ "local_irq_set()" function does: it saves the 
> old irq masking state, and then it enables it.
> 
> The whole concept doesn't make any sense. If you enable interrupts, there 
> is little point in saving the callers irq mask, since it already got 
> deflated.

Ah, OK.  local_irq_set() is worthless, then.

Curious to see the results of upping the timeout.

	Rob Love



  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-30 23:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-29  7:58 2.4.23-uv3 patch set released James Bourne
2003-12-30 11:36 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-30 19:59   ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-30 21:46     ` no DRQ after issuing WRITE was " Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-30 21:57       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-30 22:21         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-30 23:18           ` Eric D. Mudama
2003-12-30 22:23         ` Rob Love
2003-12-30 22:54           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-30 22:58             ` Rob Love [this message]
2004-01-03 11:22               ` Daniel Tram Lux
2004-01-03 18:57                 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-03 19:27                   ` Daniel Tram Lux
2004-01-03 22:10     ` Pavel Machek
2003-12-31  6:10   ` James Bourne

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