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Re: [linuxppc-release] [PATCH v2 4/4] fsl-dma: use spin_lock_bh to instead of spin_lock_irqsave

From: Timur Tabi <hidden>
Date: 2012-07-11 15:01:08
Also in: linuxppc-dev

Qiang Liu wrote:
Use spin_lock_bh to instead of spin_lock_irqsave for improving performance.
Please provide some evidence that performance has improved, as well as an
explanation why it's okay to use spin_lock_bh, and why it's faster.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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