On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > We certainly don't want to encourage people to blindly make those > conversions ... and I've seen the results of encouraging kernel janitors > to do things a certain way.
There's another issue: the "irqsave/irqrestore" versions are much safer than the plain "irq" versions, in case the caller already has interrupts disabled. So anybody making the change not only would need to make the performance argument, he'd better not be a janitor that blindly does the change without thinking about all call-sites etc.. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/