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From: tony@ercolano.com (Anthony V. Ercolano)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.nt.kernel-mode
Subject: Re: KeInsertQueueDpc bug on SMP systems?
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 22:16:02 GMT
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Oh, and another thing Paul,

As I recall there are a few other kernel api's.  Timers, Events,
etc...

Should we begin wrapping them inside spinlocks also?  Just to be safe.
Gosh imagine calling them at the same time on two different
processors.  Wouldn't want to strain the kernel here.


"Paul Sanders" <paulsan@microsoft.com> wrote:

>We don't expect that someone will try to to queue exactly the same dpc on
>different processors simultaneously. We have never seen this problem before.