linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Improvev netconsole support for RTL8139 NIC driver

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Message-Id: <20080325.194221.16658596.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:42:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jgarzik@...ox.com
Cc:	yang.shi@...driver.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improvev netconsole support for RTL8139 NIC driver

From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:23:24 -0400

> This is bogus -- you should never need to slow down the hot path in such 
> a way.

Slow down in what way?  Even on x86 saving the flags is just
about as expensive as a plain sti/cli.

I would in fact prefer to see drivers unconditionally use
spin_lock_irqsave() et al. in the interrupt handler, for
consistency.
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