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From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, clameter@engr.sgi.com,
	Alok Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] mm: NUMA slab -- minor optimizations
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 00:42:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43B07FE9.4000803@colorfullife.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051129085456.GC3573@localhost.localdomain>

Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:

>Patch adds some minor optimizations:
>1. Keeps on chip interrupts enabled for a bit longer while draining cpu
>caches
>2. Calls numa_node_id once in cache_reap
>
>Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com>
>Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
>Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
>
>Index: linux-2.6.15-rc1/mm/slab.c
>===================================================================
>--- linux-2.6.15-rc1.orig/mm/slab.c	2005-11-17 21:32:43.000000000 -0800
>+++ linux-2.6.15-rc1/mm/slab.c	2005-11-17 21:32:50.000000000 -0800
>@@ -1914,18 +1914,18 @@
> 
> 	smp_call_function_all_cpus(do_drain, cachep);
> 	check_irq_on();
>-	spin_lock_irq(&cachep->spinlock);
>+	spin_lock(&cachep->spinlock);
>  
>
Isn't that a bug? What prevents an interrupt from occuring after the 
spin_lock() and then causing a deadlock on cachep->spinlock?

--
    Manfred

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-26 23:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-29  8:50 [patch 1/3] mm: NUMA slab -- add alien cache drain statistics Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-11-29  8:53 ` [patch 2/3] mm: NUMA slab -- node local memory for off slab slab descriptors Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-11-29 17:48   ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-29  8:54 ` [patch 3/3] mm: NUMA slab -- minor optimizations Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-11-29 17:53   ` Christoph Lameter
2005-12-26 23:42   ` Manfred Spraul [this message]
2005-12-27 20:35     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-29  9:25 ` [patch 1/3] mm: NUMA slab -- add alien cache drain statistics Andrew Morton
2005-11-29 17:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-29 18:49   ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-01-02 15:27 [patch 3/3] mm: NUMA slab -- minor optimizations Alok Kataria

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