Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762141AbYBHIK5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 03:10:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932870AbYBHIKE (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 03:10:04 -0500 Received: from relay2.sgi.com ([192.48.171.30]:49314 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932758AbYBHIKB (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 03:10:01 -0500 Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 00:10:00 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Eric Dumazet cc: Nick Piggin , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , LKML , linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [git pull] more SLUB updates for 2.6.25 In-Reply-To: <47AC04CD.9090407@cosmosbay.com> Message-ID: References: <200802081812.22513.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <47AC04CD.9090407@cosmosbay.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 551 Lines: 14 On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Eric Dumazet wrote: > And SLAB/SLUB allocators, even if only used from process context, want to > disable/re-enable interrupts... Not any more..... The new fastpath does allow avoiding interrupt enable/disable and we will be hopefully able to increase the scope of that over time. -- 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/