linux-kernel - Re: [this_cpu_xx V5 19/19] SLUB: Experimental new fastpath w/o interrupt disable

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0910081211050.21951@gentwo.org>
Date:	Thu, 8 Oct 2009 12:11:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
cc:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [this_cpu_xx V5 19/19] SLUB: Experimental new fastpath w/o
 interrupt disable

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > 	preempt_enable_no_sched()
>
> NACK, delaying the reschedule is not an option

I ended up just doing a preempt_disable() at the beginning and a
preempt_disable() at the end. That should be easily reviewable.

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