On (23/11/07 15:08), Ankur Arora wrote: [..] > +++ b/mm/zsmalloc.c > @@ -2029,7 +2029,6 @@ static unsigned long __zs_compact(struct zs_pool *pool, > dst_zspage = NULL; > > spin_unlock(&pool->lock); > - cond_resched(); > spin_lock(&pool->lock); > } > } I'd personally prefer to have a comment explaining why we do that spin_unlock/spin_lock sequence, which may look confusing to people. Maybe would make sense to put a nice comment in all similar cases. For instance: rcu_read_unlock(); - cond_resched(); rcu_read_lock();