On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > As I am going back through the initial cmpxchg_local implementation, it > seems like it was executing __slab_alloc() with preemption disabled, > which is wrong. new_slab() is not designed for that.
The version I send you did not use preemption. We need to make a decision if we want to go without preemption and cmpxchg or with preemption and cmpxchg_local. If we really want to do this then the implementation of all of these components need to result in competitive performance on all platforms. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
