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

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 08:46 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> * local_irq_restore
>   -> the interrupt line is low. The scheduler won't be called. There is
>      no preempt_check_resched() call.

That would be an issue with all irq disable sections, so I don't think
this is actually true.

I tried to find the actual code, but frigging paravirt crap obfuscated
the code enough that I actually gave up.
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