Re: [PATCH 05/28] mm: allow PF_MEMALLOC from softirq context

2008-02-23 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:46:15 +0100 Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allow PF_MEMALLOC to be set in softirq context. When running softirqs from a borrowed context save current-flags, ksoftirqd will have its own task_struct. The second sentence doesn't make sense. This is needed to

[PATCH 05/28] mm: allow PF_MEMALLOC from softirq context

2008-02-20 Thread Peter Zijlstra
Allow PF_MEMALLOC to be set in softirq context. When running softirqs from a borrowed context save current-flags, ksoftirqd will have its own task_struct. This is needed to allow network softirq packet processing to make use of PF_MEMALLOC. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---