Re: [patch] 2.6.6-rc2 Allow architectures to reenable interrupts oncontended spinlocks

[Andrew Morton]

Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  Enable interrupts while waiting for a disabled spinlock, but only if
>  interrupts were enabled before issuing spin_lock_irqsave().  It makes a
>  measurable difference to interrupt servicing on large systems.

Do you know which are the offending locks?

How much difference, and how large are the systems?

Thanks.
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