vmalloc for zlib workspace

[Jörn Engel]

On Mon, 26 May 2003 14:57:49 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > preempt_disable();
> > down();
> 
>  // which causes BUG() due to scheduling with preemption disabled.
> 
> > //long processing time
> > up();
> > preempt_enable();
> > 
> > That way, preemption will be turned of on all CPUs for a long time,
> 
> Is that true? I thought not.

No, it isn't.  Sometimes I tend to misread things.  But still, the new
design appears to be better, imho.

Jörn

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