Subject: Re: SMP re-entrancy in kernel drivers/"bottom half?"
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/17/2003 19:24:03
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On Dec 17, 2003, at 7:18 PM, Jonathan Stone wrote:

> I said I though that should work, too. but it seems a (small) step in
> the wrong direction, too: we want finer-grained locks, not yet more
> use of kernel_lock.

Yes, we do, but I don't think IPL_*_slock is the way to get it.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>


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