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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve pci_alloc_consistent wrapper on preemptive kernels
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 23:42:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040730234244.16e9f99f.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <410A8E7D.2030009@pobox.com>

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:07:57 -0400
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:


> 
> Certainly.  Therefore, changing from GFP_ATOMIC will increase likelihood 
> of breakage, no?

No, except for places that are already broken on preemptive kernels
(and note this change only does something on preemptive kernels) 

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-07-30 21:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-30 17:02 [PATCH] Improve pci_alloc_consistent wrapper on preemptive kernels Andi Kleen
2004-07-30 17:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-30 17:43   ` Andi Kleen
2004-07-30 18:07     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-30 18:47       ` Takashi Iwai
2004-07-30 19:28         ` Takashi Iwai
2004-07-30 21:42       ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-07-30 20:02 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-30 20:13   ` James Bottomley
2004-07-30 20:20     ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-30 20:28       ` James Bottomley
     [not found] <2nJ3t-34a-39@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <2nJmP-3eq-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <2nJG8-3p6-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <2nK9b-3PM-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-07-30 18:34       ` Andi Kleen

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