Re: [PATCH] SLUB use cmpxchg_local

* Christoph Lameter ([email protected]) wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> 
> > - Changed smp_rmb() for barrier(). We are not interested in read order
> >   across cpus, what we want is to be ordered wrt local interrupts only.
> >   barrier() is much cheaper than a rmb().
> 
> But this means a preempt disable is required. RT users do not want that.
> Without preemption the processor can be moved after c has been determined.
> That is why the smp_rmb() is there.

preemption is required if we want to use cmpxchg_local anyway.

We may have to find a way to use preemption while being able to give an
upper bound on the preempt disabled execution time. I think I got a way
to do this yesterday.. I'll dig in my patches.

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