Re: [GIT PULL] slab fixes for 3.2-rc4

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> I still don't understand why we'd want separate preempt safe and
> irqsafe variants. It should be enough to have only unsafe and safe
> variants where the latter would always do the right thing.

The effort to make something irqsafe is higher than making it preempt
safe. If that difference is not important then we could just have safe and
unsafe variants. Traditionally counter operations were only preempt safe
though. So making those irqsafe would increse the overhead.




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