Hi, As mentioned in Robert Love's book on Linux kernel development: "The mask GFP_NOFS to kmalloc specifies that the allocation can block and can initiate disk I/O, if it must, but will not initiate a filesystem operation. This is the flag to use in filesystem code when you cannot start another filesystem operation." When it came to GFP_NOIO mask that says that no Disk IO should be initiated to free memory; I could digest that very well since Disk IO could be initiated to swap a process to disk to free memory. But I could not understand why and how could a filesystem request be initiated in order to free memory (the case avoided by GFP_NOFS)? What am I missing here? Thanks, Dan -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
