Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable | Date | Sun, 13 Jan 2002 15:59:38 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > I disable a single specific interrupt, I don't disable the timer interrupt. > > Your code doesn't seem to handle that. > > It can if we increment the preempt_count in disable_irq_nosync and > decrement it on enable_irq.
A driver that knows about how its irq is handled and that it is sole user (eg ISA) may and some do leave it disabled for hours at a time - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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