Re: [patch 11/21] disable interrupts while holding pagemap_lru_lock

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Andrew Morton wrote:

> This optimisation is not needed on uniprocessor, but the patch disables
> IRQs while holding pagemap_lru_lock anyway, so it becomes an irq-safe
> spinlock, and pages can be moved from the LRU in interrupt context.

It does cleanup slablru in UP. It simplifies the patch getting rid of the
#ifdef when adding page(s) to the slab caches. It also cleans up the code
used when we want to remove a slab from a cache.

Thanks
Ed Tomlinson

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