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Subject: Re: preempt_disable and softirq
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Venkat Subbiah <v.subbiah@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:08:33 +0200
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On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 19:03 -0700, Venkat Subbiah wrote:
> Does disabling preemption by calling preempt_disable() cause softirqs
> on the local cpu to be disabled too? 

No.