Re: [this_cpu_xx V5 19/19] SLUB: Experimental new fastpath w/ointerrupt disable

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Oct 08 2009 - 03:51:16 EST


On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 11:21 -0400, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>
> > You are already calling the scheduler when ending the _fast_ path. I
> > don't see the problem with calling it when you end the slow path
> > execution.
>
> Well yes that gives rise to the thought of using
>
> preempt_enable_no_sched()

NACK, delaying the reschedule is not an option
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