Re: splxxx level?

From: Scott Long (scottl_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 08/31/04

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    Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:53:44 -0600
    To: Stephan Uphoff <ups@tree.com>
    
    

    Stephan Uphoff wrote:

    > Hi,
    >
    > Disclaimer: I never developed for FreeBSD 4.X
    > and might be a few miles off target...
    >
    > I vaguely recall seeing that vinum issues
    > new strategy calls to member disks
    > in the context of a buffer's biodone callback.
    >
    > Because of this mixing local and network
    > disks in a vinum set could cause the network
    > disk's strategy to be called in the the
    > interrupt context of the local disk controller.
    > ( And the other way round?)
    >
    >

    Interesting observation, and I don't have a good
    answer for that. I guess for now it'll be prudent
    to avoid mixing subsystems like this.

    Scott
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