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Date:   Wed, 4 Aug 2021 17:57:47 +0200
From:   Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] v5.14-rc4-rt4
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On 2021-08-04 09:49:48 [-0600], Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> That'd work on non-RT as well, but it makes it worse on non-RT as well with
> the irq enable/disable dance. While that's not the end of the world, would
> be nice to have a solution that doesn't sacrifice anything, yet doesn't
> make RT unhappy.

There were plans to make local_irq_disable() mostly a nop (similar to
what ppc64 does). But I have no idea what happened. I hope that work
gets picked up.

Sebastian