On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> We certainly don't want to encourage people to blindly make those
> conversions ... and I've seen the results of encouraging kernel janitors
> to do things a certain way.
There's another issue: the "irqsave/irqrestore" versions are much safer
than the plain "irq" versions, in case the caller already has interrupts
disabled.
So anybody making the change not only would need to make the performance
argument, he'd better not be a janitor that blindly does the change
without thinking about all call-sites etc..
Linus
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