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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 11:53:14 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: BUG or not? GFP_KERNEL with interrupts disabled.
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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   From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
   Date: 27 Mar 2003 14:52:11 -0500

   On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 14:39, David S. Miller wrote:
   
   > I hadn't considered this, good idea.  I'm trying this out right now.
   
   I hope it works.  I have a sinking feeling we call it some places that
   may have interrupts disabled...

Your sinking feeling was warranted.

Nearly every hw IRQ implementation invokes irq_exit() with
CPU interrupts off :-(  That has to be screwing with performance
as well.
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