Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264075AbTEaACa (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2003 20:02:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264080AbTEaACa (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2003 20:02:30 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:19379 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264075AbTEaAC3 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2003 20:02:29 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 17:14:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20030530.171410.104043496.davem@redhat.com> To: joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de Cc: jmorris@intercode.com.au, dwmw2@infradead.org, matsunaga_kazuhisa@yahoo.co.jp, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] 1/2 central workspace for zlib From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20030530174319.GA16687@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <20030530144959.GA4736@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20030530174319.GA16687@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> X-FalunGong: Information control. X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: J?rn Engel Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 19:43:19 +0200 What contention were you talking about? :) Actually, your idea is interesting. Are you going to use per-cpu workspaces? I think the best scheme is 2 per-cpu workspaces, one for normal and one for softirq context. No locking needed whatsoever. I hope it can work :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/