On Mon, 8 Jun 2015, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote: > My real question is if disabling local interrupts is enough to avoid this? Yes the initial release of slub used interrupt disable in the fast paths. > And, does local irq disabling also stop preemption? Of course. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>