On Fri, Apr 08 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 30 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: > > >>So Kenneth if you could look into this one as well, to see if > >>it is worthwhile, that would be great. > > > > > >For that to work, you have to change the get_io_context() allocation to > >be GFP_ATOMIC. > > > > Yes of course, thanks for picking that up. > > I guess this isn't a problem, as io contexts should be allocated > comparatively rarely. It would be possible to move it out of the > lock though if we really want to.
Lets just keep it inside the lock, for the fast case it should just be an increment of the already existing io context. -- Jens Axboe - 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/
