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Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 20:26:20 +0530
From: "BALBIR SINGH" <balbir.singh@wipro.com>
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To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: pre6 VM issues
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Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

>On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 08:07:19PM +0530, BALBIR SINGH wrote:
>
>>their pages can even be swapped out if needed. But for a device that is not willing
>>to wait (GFP_ATOMIC) say in an interrupt context, this might be a issue.
>>
>
>There's just a reserved pool for atomic allocations. See the __GFP_WAIT
>check in __alloc_pages.
>
I apologize for my ignorance on this
Balbir

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>Andrea
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