From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: BALBIR SINGH <balbir.singh@wipro.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: pre6 VM issues
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 16:44:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011009164417.G15943@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0110091057470.5604-100000@freak.distro.conectiva> <3BC30B9F.9060609@wipro.com>
In-Reply-To: <3BC30B9F.9060609@wipro.com>; from balbir.singh@wipro.com on Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 08:07:19PM +0530
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.
Andrea
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-09 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-09 12:44 pre6 VM issues Marcelo Tosatti
2001-10-09 12:48 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-10-09 14:17 ` BALBIR SINGH
2001-10-09 13:01 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-10-09 14:37 ` BALBIR SINGH
2001-10-09 13:22 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-10-09 14:43 ` BALBIR SINGH
2001-10-09 14:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2001-10-09 14:56 ` BALBIR SINGH
2001-10-09 14:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-09 13:13 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-10-09 14:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-09 13:23 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-10-09 14:53 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-09 14:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-09 13:34 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-10-09 15:39 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-09 15:08 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-10-09 16:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-09 17:07 ` Linus Torvalds
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