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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708211731410.3354@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:34:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
mingo@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SLUB use cmpxchg_local
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> As I am going back through the initial cmpxchg_local implementation, it
> seems like it was executing __slab_alloc() with preemption disabled,
> which is wrong. new_slab() is not designed for that.
The version I send you did not use preemption.
We need to make a decision if we want to go without preemption and cmpxchg
or with preemption and cmpxchg_local.
If we really want to do this then the implementation of all of these
components need to result in competitive performance on all platforms.
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