Messages in this thread |  | | From | Ed Tomlinson <> | Subject | Re: [patch 11/21] disable interrupts while holding pagemap_lru_lock | Date | Sun, 11 Aug 2002 07:26:52 -0400 |
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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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