On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 09:50:16PM +0900, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote: > consider an interrupt which was registered as IPL_SERIAL occurs when > the current ipl is IPL_NONE. > in this case, currently, kernel lock will be acquired unnecessarily. Yeah, that's true. Ok, since we'll need a similar construct for marking handlers MP safe anyway, this is fine with me. - Frank