Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269039AbUJFNjn (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:39:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269153AbUJFNjn (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:39:43 -0400 Received: from mta10.srv.hcvlny.cv.net ([167.206.5.85]:64820 "EHLO mta10.srv.hcvlny.cv.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269039AbUJFNjh (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:39:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 09:38:20 -0400 From: Jeff Sipek Subject: Re: Preempt? (was Re: Cannot enable DMA on SATA drive (SCSI-libsata, VIA SATA)) In-reply-to: <20041005231642.55308f99.akpm@osdl.org> To: Andrew Morton Cc: Jeff Garzik , andrea@novell.com, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, rml@novell.com, roland@topspin.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <200410060938.30152.jeffpc@optonline.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <52is9or78f.fsf_-_@topspin.com> <41638AEB.5080703@pobox.com> <20041005231642.55308f99.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 896 Lines: 30 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 06 October 2004 02:16, Andrew Morton wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > If your implied answer is true, then we wouldn't need > > preempt_{en,dis}able() sprinkled throughout the code so much. > > Where? > > It's less than I expected, actually. Same here. Did you take into account things like rcu_read_lock()? Jeff Sipek. - -- Don't drink and derive. Alcohol and algebra don't mix. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBY/VQwFP0+seVj/4RAnCzAKCovAcfr8TFLzQ0xkjPnNtXm7UlygCggWtO 76FhTdx4AvYlBy1qNmR9G3I= =JKNi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - 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/