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Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 00:10:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [git pull] more SLUB updates for 2.6.25
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On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> And SLAB/SLUB allocators, even if only used from process context, want to
> disable/re-enable interrupts...

Not any more..... The new fastpath does allow avoiding interrupt 
enable/disable and we will be hopefully able to increase the scope of that 
over time.

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