spin_locks without smp.

Maciej Soltysiak (solt@dns.toxicfilms.tv)
Fri, 10 Jan 2003 12:42:34 +0100 (CET)


Hi,

while browsing through the network drivers about the etherleak issue i
found that some drivers have:

#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
spin_lock_irqsave(...)
#endif

and some just:

spin_lock_irqsave(...)

or similar.
Which version should be practiced? i thought spinlocks are irrelevant
without SMP so we should use #ifdef to shorten the execution path.

Regards,
Maciej Soltysiak

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