Re: [PATCH] per-cpu patch 2/3

[Robert Love]

On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 20:48, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Given the ongoing races with smp_processor_id() and preempt, this
> makes sense to me.  this_cpu() was too generic a name anyway.

Very nice, although:

How do you reenable preemption?

We already have get_cpu() and put_cpu() which do pretty much what you
are suggesting (and put_cpu() enables preemption) and are used by code
today.  If you want to make changes to them, that is fine, but we should
keep the interface...

	Robert Love