In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warner Losh writes:

>I'd like to be able to do some simple spl locking in a driver that I'm
>writing.  While I could go the splhigh() route, I'm concerned that
>spending lots of time at splhigh could cause problems, and some of my
>critical sections look to be very expensive.  They only need
>protection against the card itself, not against the entire system.  It
>just seems to be an overly large hammer.

I miss this too.

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Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
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