Re: [PATCH]: Clean up of __alloc_pages

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Ok ... so a spinlock (task_lock) costs one barrier and one atomic more
than an rcu_read_lock (on a preempt kernel where both spinlock and
rcu_read_lock cost a preempt), or something like that.

Thanks, Nick.

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