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On Fri, 1 May 2009, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

> Then do you have a better idea on how to deal with
> __inc_zone_state/inc_zone_state without duplicating the code and without
> adding useless local_irq_save/restore on x86 ?

We are already using __inc_zone_state to avoid local_irq_save/restore.