This is a very slight performance improvement. Eliminating the need to save the IRQ flags is probably more of a boost than grabbing and releasing the reglock. Signed-off-by: Shaun Ruffell <sruffell@digium.com> git-svn-id: http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/dahdi/linux/trunk@9558 a0bf4364-ded3-4de4-8d8a-66a801d63aff