linux-kernel - Re: [patch 01/28] cpu alloc: The allocator

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Date:	Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:19:34 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 01/28] cpu alloc: The allocator


On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 10:50 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> 
> > > Also, looking at the lock usage, this thing is not IRQ safe, so it
> > > should not be called from hardirq context. Please document this.
> 
> Well I went the other way and made it work like the slab allocators.

Nice.

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