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From: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch 09/10] SLUB: Do our own locking via slab_lock and slab_unlock.
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:30:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84144f020710282330v5df5df32v1a766e653081a751@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710282001000.28636@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

Hi,

On 10/29/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> > We don't need preempt_enable for CONFIG_SMP, right?
>
> preempt_enable is needed if preemption is enabled.

Disabled? But yeah, I see that slab_trylock() can leave preemption
disabled if cmpxchg fails. Was confused by the #ifdefs... :-)

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-29  6:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-28  3:31 [patch 00/10] SLUB: SMP regression tests on Dual Xeon E5345 (8p) and new performance patches Christoph Lameter
2007-10-28  3:31 ` [patch 01/10] SLUB: Consolidate add_partial and add_partial_tail to one function Christoph Lameter
2007-10-28 13:07   ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-10-28  3:31 ` [patch 02/10] SLUB: Noinline some functions to avoid them being folded into alloc/free Christoph Lameter
2007-10-28 13:08   ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-10-29 23:25   ` Matt Mackall
2007-10-28  3:31 ` [patch 03/10] SLUB: Move kmem_cache_node determination into add_full and add_partial Christoph Lameter
2007-10-28 13:09   ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-10-28  3:32 ` [patch 04/10] SLUB: Avoid checking for a valid object before zeroing on the fast path Christoph Lameter
2007-10-28 13:10   ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-10-28  3:32 ` [patch 05/10] SLUB: __slab_alloc() exit path consolidation Christoph Lameter
2007-10-28 13:11   ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-10-28  3:32 ` [patch 06/10] SLUB: Provide unique end marker for each slab Christoph Lameter
2007-10-28  3:32 ` [patch 07/10] SLUB: Avoid referencing kmem_cache structure in __slab_alloc Christoph Lameter
2007-10-28 13:12   ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-10-30 18:38   ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-28  3:32 ` [patch 08/10] SLUB: Optional fast path using cmpxchg_local Christoph Lameter
2007-10-28 13:05   ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-10-29  2:59     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-29  3:34     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-30 18:30     ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-30 18:49   ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-30 18:58     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-30 19:12       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-10-31  1:52       ` [PATCH] local_t Documentation update 2 Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-10-31  2:28   ` [patch 08/10] SLUB: Optional fast path using cmpxchg_local Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-10-28  3:32 ` [patch 09/10] SLUB: Do our own locking via slab_lock and slab_unlock Christoph Lameter
2007-10-28 15:10   ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-10-28 15:14     ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-10-29  3:03     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-29  6:30       ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2007-10-30  4:50   ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-30 18:32     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-31  1:17       ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-28  3:32 ` [patch 10/10] SLUB: Restructure slab alloc Christoph Lameter

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