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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC] 1/2 central workspace for zlib
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   From: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 08:48:51 +0200

> No locking needed whatsoever. I hope it can work :-)

How about preemption? zlib operations take their time, so at least on
up, it makes sense to preempt them, when not in softirq context. Can
this still be done lockless?

You'll need to disable preemption.
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