From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
Cc: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>,
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2004@gmx.net>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] kmem_alloc (generic wrapper for kmalloc and vmalloc)
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 19:04:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041110180422.GS5602@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0411101154070.1276@gradall.private.brainfood.com>
On Wed, Nov 10 2004, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> > Plus, you cannot use vfree() from interrupt context. This patch is a bad
> > idea.
>
> why not have a work queue, that frees things later, after a delay?
Kludge upon kludge does not make the interface any better. The best fix
is to split the allocations, like suggested a slab cache for the loop
would do nicely.
--
Jens Axboe
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-10 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-10 5:19 [RFC] [PATCH] kmem_alloc (generic wrapper for kmalloc and vmalloc) Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2004-11-10 6:03 ` Robert Love
2004-11-10 6:31 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2004-11-10 6:57 ` Robert Love
2004-11-10 7:10 ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-10 13:36 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-11-10 7:54 ` Jens Axboe
2004-11-10 17:03 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2004-11-10 17:17 ` Roland Dreier
2004-11-10 17:54 ` Adam Heath
2004-11-10 18:04 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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