From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Sriram Narasimhan <nsri@tataelxsi.co.in>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Tasklet doubt!
Date: 11 Apr 2003 12:31:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1050078702.2291.218.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E96EAF5.4060609@tataelxsi.co.in>
On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 12:19, Sriram Narasimhan wrote:
> How much of memory can be allocated from a tasklet ? [ kmalloc
> (GFP_ATOMIC) ].
It depends. Asking for 2.5MB of GFP_ATOMIC is a lot.
Perhaps you should use the keventd task queue, which runs in process
context and thus sleeps. You can allocate using kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) or
even vmalloc().
Robert Love
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-11 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-11 16:19 Tasklet doubt! Sriram Narasimhan
2003-04-11 16:31 ` Robert Love [this message]
2003-04-11 16:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-04-11 16:46 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-11 16:48 ` Robert Love
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