Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759215AbZJNTb7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:31:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756943AbZJNTb6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:31:58 -0400 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.104]:16587 "EHLO mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759115AbZJNTb5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:31:57 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 512 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:31:57 EDT X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,561,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="36327666" Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:22:46 +0200 From: Samuel Thibault To: Stefan Richter Cc: "Leonidas ." , Gleb Natapov , linux-kernel Subject: Re: How to check whether executing in atomic context? Message-ID: <20091014192246.GC5755@const.famille.thibault.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Samuel Thibault , Stefan Richter , "Leonidas ." , Gleb Natapov , linux-kernel References: <20091014101336.GA25108@redhat.com> <4AD60CD1.4000804@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <4AD6235B.8090905@s5r6.in-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4AD6235B.8090905@s5r6.in-berlin.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 542 Lines: 14 Stefan Richter, le Wed 14 Oct 2009 21:15:39 +0200, a ?crit : > > I am not aware of any Linux kernel module which can comply to this > > kind of use case, what would be the most optimal thing to do here? > > And preallocation is not feasible either? Or deferring work to a kernel thread. Samuel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/