On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 10:36:26AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > My question might be slightly out of topic. But is there anything in > > Linux that resembles the BSD lowering and increasing interrupt priority? > > Eg. splsoftnet and splnet etc. > Linux only has interrupts on or off. > It is either switched globally by cli() and sti() or per-cpu by > __cli() and __sti(). ISTR something called irqtune from a few years back (2.0.x times) Not even sure if this works with any recent kernels, but it sounds like the sort of thing the original poster was looking for. Try freshmeat/google for it. Dave. -- -ENOMONKEY. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
