On 06/19/2012 10:26 PM, Seth Jennings wrote: > Did you get a might_sleep warning on this? I haven't seen this being an > issue. > No, i did not, i get it just from code review. > GFP_ATOMIC only modifies the existing mask to allow allocation use the > emergency pool. It is __GFP_WAIT not being set that prevents sleep. We > don't want to use the emergency pool since we make large, long lived > allocations with this mask. > Ah, yes, i thought only GFP_ATOMIC can prevent sleep, thank you very much for pointing it out. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>