Subject: Re: DS3100 ethernet spl problem fixed
To: Charles Hannum <Charles-Hannum@deshaw.com>
From: None <Chris_G_Demetriou@NIAGARA.NECTAR.CS.CMU.EDU>
List: port-pmax
Date: 01/02/1996 00:54:44
> > They're not, except during malloc() or free(), and changing those to
> > use splhigh() wouldn't change that fact.
>
> Then if the lance driver is running for a long time at splimp(), it's
> probably a bug that we need to fix.
>
> As noted by Jason, on some machines it's not really possible to `fix'
> this. I remember hearing something ages ago about Macs only having 2
> interrupt priorities...
On all the Alphas i have, interrupts come in at only one IPL...
of course, the Alpha is fast enough that i've not run into any
problems... 8-)
chris