Re: splxxx replacements?

[Gary Thorpe <gthorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> Yury Tarasievich wrote:
>
> > What are the functional equivalents of spl... functions?
>
>
> crit_enter() and crit_exit().  They only defer interrupt execution on 
> the same cpu, though.  if you need system-wide serialization to a 
> resource, you should consider using a spinlock or a serializer.
>
> cheers
>  simon

That's basically the equivalent of splhigh() and splx(): isn't that 
worse than blocking individual levels?