Re: [RFC] 2.4.0-test6-pre2 Merge softirq, local_irq_count, local_bh_count

Keith Owens writes:

This patch hits every arch.  It is being cross mailed to every arch
mailing list that has not already confirmed that the patch works.
Please trim replies to the relevant mailing list.

Seems to work ok on uniprocessor PPC.  The 2.4 kernels have problems
on SMP PPC boxes at the moment so I haven't tested it on SMP.

Have you done any measurements, with lmbench or whatever, to measure
how much performance improvement you get with the patch?

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