[PATCH] ia64: greatly speed-up I/O-SAPIC irq_enable()/irq_disable()
This patch changes the I/O SAPIC code to cache the low 32 bits of the mask word in kernel memory. This greatly speeds up mask_irq() and unmask_irq(). Normally, these operations are not on the speed-critical path of the kernel but with certain devices drivers (including users-level device- drivers) they can become performance-critical.
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