Re: [PATCH] slub - Use local_t protection

[Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

> @@ -1566,12 +1565,13 @@ redo:
>  		object[c->offset]) != object))
>  			goto redo;
>  
> -	put_cpu();
> +	local_exit(flags);
>  	if (unlikely((gfpflags & __GFP_ZERO)))
>  		memset(object, 0, c->objsize);
>  
>  	return object;
>  slow:
> +	local_exit(flags);

Here we can be rescheduled to another processors.

>  	return __slab_alloc(s, gfpflags, node, addr, c)

c may point to the wrong processor.
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