Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable

[Alan Cox <alan _at_ lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

> > PRE-EMPT:
> > 	We get back and we've missed 300 packets, the serial port sharing
> > 	the IRQ has dropped our internet connection completely.
> 
> We don't preempt while IRQ are disabled.

I must have missed that in the code. I can see you check __cli() status but
I didn't see anywhere you check disable_irq(). Even if you did it doesnt
help when I mask the irq on the chip rather than using disable_irq() calls.

Alan
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