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Date:      Thu, 28 Oct 1999 21:56:04 -0700
From:      Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        dfr@nlsystems.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ip forwarding broken on alpha 
Message-ID:  <199910290456.VAA10430@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>

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On Thu, 28 Oct 1999 21:32:51 -0400 (EDT) 
 Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> wrote:

 > exception_return & skipped the ipl lowering & the check for an ast
 > since I don't think you're ever going to need to check for an ast
 > after an interrupt.  

Nonsense.  ASTs are a key part of process scheduling, and I'd bet that
you run into strange scheduling behaviour if you don't deal with ASTs
after e.g. clock interrupts.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>



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