On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:46:47 -0800 (PST)
David Miller [off-list ref] wrote:

From: Peter Zijlstra <redacted>
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:19:31 +0100

quoted

I state that every !IRQF_DISABLED usage is a bug, either due to broken
hardware or broken drivers.

We'll send you the bill to have everyone's hardware
replaced :-)

yes, but with what?

No matter how fast all our interrupt handlers are, running them with
local interrupts disabled has to worsen the worst-case interrupt
latency.

I don't see how removing !IRQF_DISABLED improves the kernel - in fact
there's a latency argument for making !IRQF_DISABLED the default.