Re: [Intel-IOMMU 02/10] Library routine for pre-allocat pool handling

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Fri Jun 08 2007 - 18:18:40 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
Put much effort into removing the GFP_ATOMIC and using GFP_NOIO instead:
there's your problem right there.

If for some reason you really can't do that (and a requirement for
allocation-in-interrupt is the only valid reason, really)

and that's the case here; IO gets submitted from IRQ handlers (both network and block).......
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