Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:22:01 -0400 (EDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Reduce searching in the page allocator fast-path |
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This could be combined with the per cpu ops patch that makes the page allocator use alloc_percpu for its per cpu data needs. That in turn would allow the use of per cpu atomics in the hot paths, maybe we can get to a point where we can drop the irq disable there.
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