Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: kmalloc without GFP_xxx? | Date | Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:12:55 +0200 |
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Am Mittwoch, 29. Juni 2005 16:14 schrieb Denis Vlasenko: > This is more or less what I meant. Why think about each kmalloc and when you > eventually did get it right: "Aha, we _sometimes_ get called from spinlocked code, > GFP_ATOMIC then" - you still do atomic alloc even if cases when you > were _not_ called from locked code! Thus you needed to think longer and got > code which is worse.
And if not? GFP_NOFS and GFP_NOIO exist for a reason.
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