Re: PATCH 2.4.0.1.ac10: a KISS memory pressure callback

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2000 - 07:21:15 EST


> > inline (I think it was some plot of Alan to force some module writers
> > to go GPL ;). Anyways, with spinlocks they are far too big to be
> > inlined now. I guess that could save a few hundred bytes.
>
> Any places lurking where a notifier func needs to be called rapidly?

Be careful updating it. There may be users who make notifier callbacks while
in a notifier. You need a reader-write lock I think

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