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

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Message-ID: <47AD8DC6.30506@cosmosbay.com>
Date:	Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:25:58 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....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

Christoph Lameter a écrit :
> 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.
> 
> 

Oh, I missed this new SLUB_FASTPATH stuff (not yet in net-2.6), thanks Christoph !

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