Re: [PATCH] Fix dirty page accounting inredirty_page_for_writepage()

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Thu Apr 30 2009 - 10:25:54 EST


On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> The patch below makes the fallback/slowpath irq safe.

Yes but sometimes you are already irq safe and such a fallback would
create significant irq/enable/disable stack operations etc overhead for
architectures that are using the fallback.

I think we really need another __xxx op here. Especially since these
operations are often in critical code paths.


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