Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Jun 2007 15:36:01 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [Intel-IOMMU 02/10] Library routine for pre-allocat pool handling |
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On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Andreas Kleen wrote:
> > That's what kmem_cache_alloc() is for?!?! > > Tradtionally that was not allowed in block layer path. Not sure > it is fully obsolete with the recent dirty tracking work, probably not.
Why was it not allowed? Because interrupts are disabled?
> Besides it would need to be GFP_ATOMIC and the default > atomic pools are not that big.
Those could be increased. I think Mel has them already increased in mm. - 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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