Re: kmalloc without GFP_xxx?

Oliver Neukum
2005-06-29T15:12:41Z

Am Mittwoch, 29. Juni 2005 16:14 schrieb Denis Vlasenko:
> This is more or less what I meant. Why think about each kmalloc and when you
> eventually did get it right: "Aha, we _sometimes_ get called from spinlocked code,
> GFP_ATOMIC then" - you still do atomic alloc even if cases when you
> were _not_ called from locked code! Thus you needed to think longer and got
> code which is worse.

And if not? GFP_NOFS and GFP_NOIO exist for a reason.

Regards
Oliver