On 2/11/06, Hareesh Nagarajan <hareesh.nagarajan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In the same vein as my earlier post, are kfree(), kmem_cache_free() > operations that are guaranteed not to sleep? > According to my understanding (by looking at the code), they are guaranteed not to sleep. As they both calls __cache_free which won't sleep. -- Fawad Lateef -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/