linux-kernel - Re: [patch 09/10] SLUB: Do our own locking via slab_lock and slab

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Date:	Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:30:35 +0200
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Christoph Lameter" <clameter@....com>
Cc:	"Matthew Wilcox" <matthew@....cx>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [patch 09/10] SLUB: Do our own locking via slab_lock and slab_unlock.

Hi,

On 10/29/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com> wrote:
> > We don't need preempt_enable for CONFIG_SMP, right?
>
> preempt_enable is needed if preemption is enabled.

Disabled? But yeah, I see that slab_trylock() can leave preemption
disabled if cmpxchg fails. Was confused by the #ifdefs... :-)
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