On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 12:14 -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote: > Out of curiosity and for my own edification: What *is* GFP_ATOMIC meant for? It is meant as you used it, _except_ for !PREEMPT_RT. With PREEMPT_RT all allocators are fully preemptable, that is both the slab as well as the underlying page allocator. Allocation from atomic context is a BUG() with -rt. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html