Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264828AbTIDHcc (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 03:32:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264820AbTIDHal (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 03:30:41 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.86.99.235]:53190 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264784AbTIDHa2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 03:30:28 -0400 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Jeff Garzik Cc: "David S. Miller" , Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel mailing list , linux-net@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3F5679E1.8090604@pobox.com> References: <20030902231812.03fae13f.akpm@osdl.org> <20030903161200.GC23729@fs.tum.de> <3F5617A9.4040603@pobox.com> <1062607559.1785.50.camel@gaston> <3F5679E1.8090604@pobox.com> Message-Id: <1062660583.1780.57.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:29:44 +0200 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: benh@kernel.crashing.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.6.0-test4-mm5 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Version: 3.0+cvs (built Mon Aug 18 15:53:30 BST 2003) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes X-Pentafluge-Mail-From: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 653 Lines: 19 On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 01:31, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > BTW. David: Any reason why you wouldn't let me change all occurences > > of spin_{lock,unlock}_irq into the ...{save,restore} versions ? > > > IMO... even though you do lose a tiny bit of performance, I definitely > prefer the save/restore versions. I'm not even sure you actually lose perfs... at least on ppc ;) Ben. - 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/