Subject: Re: MP and device drivers
To: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
From: Gavan Fantom <gavan@coolfactor.org>
List: tech-smp
Date: 09/21/2006 15:37:56
YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> a concern is that, unless you never enter the driver with biglock held
> or you make all higher level interrupt handlers mp-safe beforehand,
> what the driver can do will be very limited due to the locking order
> constraint with biglock.
Would it be useful then to treat all drivers as non-mp-safe even if
they're flagged safe, unless all drivers with higher level interrupts
are declared mp-safe?
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