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Subject: Re: [patch 01/28] cpu alloc: The allocator
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 10:50 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> 
> > > Also, looking at the lock usage, this thing is not IRQ safe, so it
> > > should not be called from hardirq context. Please document this.
> 
> Well I went the other way and made it work like the slab allocators.

Nice.