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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Subject: Re: irq disable in __netdev_alloc_frag() ?
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 21:30:24 -0500 (CDT)
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On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:

> > Same could be done with some kmem_cache_alloc() : SLAB uses hard irq
> > masking while some caches are never used from hard irq context.
>
> Sounds interesting.

SLUB does not disable interrupts in the fast paths.