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Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 12:15:57 +0100
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
To: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] BH removal text
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On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 12:21:26AM -0700, george anzinger wrote:
> It should also be noted that none of these is entered if a
> cli is in effect.  This is the global cli and inhibits BHs
> on all cpus.

global cli() is so heaviy deprecated, it isn't even funny.  i know
mingo has a patch to remove it entirely.  if you want to ensure that
no softirq/tasklet/timer/... is run, use spin_lock_bh().  I'll add this
information, thanks!

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