| Subject | Re: [PATCH 06/33] mm: allow PF_MEMALLOC from softirq context | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:42:39 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 14:51 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Wednesday 31 October 2007 03:04, Peter Zijlstra 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. > > > What's this for? Why would ksoftirqd pick up PF_MEMALLOC? (I guess > that some networking thing must be picking it up in a subsequent patch, > but I'm too lazy to look!)... Again, can you have more of a rationale in > your patch headers, or ref the patch that uses it... thanks
Right, I knew I was forgetting something in these changelogs.
The network stack does quite a bit of packet processing from softirq context. Once you start swapping over network, some of the packets want to be processed under PF_MEMALLOC.
See patch 23/33. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] |