On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:20:47AM +0100, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> >
> > The _bh variants disable bottom half delivery [softirqs, tasklets and the
> > old bottom halfs such as timers]. Within your bh handler you can use
> > spin_lock() instead of spin_lock_bh().
>
> it would appear that _bh variants disable bottom half delivery on the same
> cpu - can't they be delivered on a different one? Or is the name
> "local_bh_disable()" deceptive and really means "global_bh_disable()"?
They only disable on the local CPU. The other CPUs should be covered by
the spinlock.
-Andi
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