On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 04:58:33PM +1300, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > > blocking memory allocation: > > f = kmem_cache_zalloc(filp_cachep, GFP_KERNEL); > > For how long might this block, though? Not much, usually. Finding the file, though, can bloody well take a _long_ time - put it behind an automount from a slow server and we might be easily talking about minutes, if not longer. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
