Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Oct 2001 16:44:17 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: pre6 VM issues |
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On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 08:07:19PM +0530, BALBIR SINGH wrote: > their pages can even be swapped out if needed. But for a device that is not willing > to wait (GFP_ATOMIC) say in an interrupt context, this might be a issue.
There's just a reserved pool for atomic allocations. See the __GFP_WAIT check in __alloc_pages.
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