Re: spin_lock_irq vs. spin_lock_irqsave.

[Tigran Aivazian]

On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> 
> The _bh variants disable bottom half delivery [softirqs, tasklets and the
> old bottom halfs such as timers]. Within your bh handler you can use
> spin_lock() instead of spin_lock_bh().

it would appear that _bh variants disable bottom half delivery on the same
cpu - can't they be delivered on a different one? Or is the name
"local_bh_disable()" deceptive and really means "global_bh_disable()"?

Regards,
Tigran