Here I go again... Another paper ...

   http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~chris/papers/cli.ps

Draft of paper discussing different hardware synchronization schemes
on the x86.  It discusses how to avoid talking to the PIC/8259 which
scheduling critical sections.  While it probably won't save much on
lightly loaded systems, I have to wonder how it would effect heavily
loaded systems such wcarchive.cdrom.com...


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