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From: Parag Warudkar <kernel-stuff@comcast.net>
To: Jody McIntyre <scjody@modernduck.com>
Cc: Dan Dennedy <dan@dennedy.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux1394-Devel <linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ohci1394: dma_pool_destroy while in_atomic() && irqs_disabled()
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 10:06:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200502191006.21076.kernel-stuff@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050219063632.GE9231@conscoop.ottawa.on.ca>

On Saturday 19 February 2005 01:36 am, Jody McIntyre wrote:
> I disagree because the impact of this bug is small.  How often do you start
> an ISO receive?  If you think it needs to be fixed urgently, please
> explain why - maybe I'm just missing somethnig.
>

I have to agree that the impact is small even for the people using ISO recv - 
I happen to use it quite frequently and it hasn't locked up on me yet. So I 
certainly don't need it fixed atm. It's just the "dmesg annoyance" if you 
will, to deal with :) !

> I'm not sure, but I looked through the code and it seems to allocate:
>  - 16 buffers of 2x PAGE_SIZE (= 131072 on i386)
>  - 16 buffers of PAGE_SIZE (= 65536 on i386)
>  - various other smaller structures.

OTOH, if it allocates so much of memory while irqs disabled and holding locks, 
isn't there a  good chance for the allocator to sleep and things to go wrong?

Parag 

  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-19 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-30 20:54 [PATCH] ohci1394: dma_pool_destroy while in_atomic() && irqs_disabled() Parag Warudkar
2005-01-30 21:17 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-30 22:49   ` Parag Warudkar
2005-01-30 23:02     ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-31  1:19       ` Parag Warudkar
2005-01-31 23:26         ` Parag Warudkar
2005-02-11 15:35         ` Dan Dennedy
2005-02-11 18:43           ` Jody McIntyre
2005-02-12  3:54             ` Parag Warudkar
2005-02-18 15:32               ` Dan Dennedy
2005-02-18 15:42                 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-02-19  6:36                   ` Jody McIntyre
2005-02-19 15:06                     ` Parag Warudkar [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-02-19 19:36 David Brownell
2005-02-19 20:50 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-02-19 21:13   ` David Brownell
2005-02-19 22:55 ` Jody McIntyre

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