Nick Piggin <[email protected]> writes:
> 9/14
>
> --
> SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
>
> Optimise page_state manipulations by introducing a direct accessor
> to page_state fields without disabling interrupts, in which case
> the callers must provide their own locking (either disable interrupts
> or not update from interrupt context).
I have a patchkit (which i need to update for the current kernel)
which replaces this with local_t. Gives much better code and is much
simpler and doesn't require turning off interrupts anywhere.
-Andi
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