Re: kmalloc without GFP_xxx?

Jörn Engel
2005-06-29T15:54:42Z

On Wed, 29 June 2005 11:48:25 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Jörn Engel wrote:
>
> > All nice and well. But still, for the sake of simplicity and me not
> > wanting to think, I prefer always using spin_lock_irqsave for
> > everything. Since when should I stop and think about my own code?
>
> OK, I use spin_lock_irqsave first, and then I only use spin_lock when I
> already know interrupts are off. But the locks I usually use are used by
> interrupts and that is reason enough to use it. I wouldn't use the
> _irqsave for simplicity, I use it since I still believe it keeps latency
> down for SMP.

Ok, before even more people get confused - I was joking. Simple code
is obviously a good thing to have. Not thinking about code, well...

> > In fact, why don't we all sit down and start using KCSP for kernel
> > hacking? ;)
>
> Naw, I'm doing my PhD on implemting Linux drivers in SmallTalk. That will
> make everybody happy!

... but it appears as if you got the joke.

Jörn

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