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SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/10] zcache: fix preemptable memory allocation in atomic context
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.



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