On Mon, 10 Jun 2013, Nicolas Palix wrote: > I notice that in the SLAB allocator, local_irq_save and > local_irq_restore are called in slab_alloc_node and slab_alloc without > checking the GFP_WAIT bit of the flags parameter. SLAB does the same as SLUB. Have a look at mm/slab.c:cache_grow() -- 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>