From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve pci_alloc_consistent wrapper on preemptive kernels
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 20:34:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3brhx9wew.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2nK9b-3PM-17@gated-at.bofh.it> (Jeff Garzik's message of "Fri, 30 Jul 2004 20:20:09 +0200")
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes:
>
> Certainly. Therefore, changing from GFP_ATOMIC will increase
> likelihood of breakage, no?
No, the atomic checks prevents that. When the code wasn't broken
before on preemptive kernels it won't be broken now.
-Andi
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-30 18:34 UTC|newest]
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2004-07-30 18:34 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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
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
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