Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Mar 2003 11:53:14 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: BUG or not? GFP_KERNEL with interrupts disabled. | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net> Date: 27 Mar 2003 14:52:11 -0500
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 14:39, David S. Miller wrote:
> I hadn't considered this, good idea. I'm trying this out right now. I hope it works. I have a sinking feeling we call it some places that may have interrupts disabled...
Your sinking feeling was warranted.
Nearly every hw IRQ implementation invokes irq_exit() with CPU interrupts off :-( That has to be screwing with performance as well. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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