linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] more SLUB updates for 2.6.25

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802080008560.22689@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Fri, 8 Feb 2008 00:10:00 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
cc:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] more SLUB updates for 2.6.25

On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> And SLAB/SLUB allocators, even if only used from process context, want to
> disable/re-enable interrupts...

Not any more..... The new fastpath does allow avoiding interrupt 
enable/disable and we will be hopefully able to increase the scope of that 
over time.

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