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

Timur Tabi timur at freescale.com
Thu Jul 12 01:01:01 EST 2012


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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