On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > Otherwise you are locked into the use of GFP_ATOMIC. > > all callers pretty much are either in irq context or with spinlocks held. Good > luck..... it's also called primarily from the PCI DMA API which doesn't take a > gfp_t argument in the first place... > > so I'm not seeing the point.
Hmmm... From my superficial look at things it seems that one could avoid GFP_ATOMIC at times. I do not know too much about the driver though but it seems a bit restrictive to always do GFP_ATOMIC allocs. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
