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Message-ID: <47E9BA6C.2010502@windriver.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:52:28 +0800
From: yshi <yang.shi@...driver.com>
To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC: jgarzik@...ox.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improvev netconsole support for RTL8139 NIC driver
David Miller 写道:
> 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.
>
Yes, I agree. Many NIC drivers do the same thing, like Gianfar, E1000, etc.
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