> Which worked _very_ well (the whole list) going in the other direction
for the
> netisr queue(s) in HP-UX 10.20. OK, I promise no more old HP-UX stories
for the
> balance of the week :)
Yes, OSes I worked on in other lives usually took the whole queue
and then took responsibility for handling them outside the lock.
A dequeue_n() under 1 lock should still be better than n locks,
I'd think, since you may bounce to different CPUs during the n individual
cycles.
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