Re: Short question regarding generic_make_request()

From: Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Date: Sun Feb 03 2002 - 08:39:46 EST

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On Sun, Feb 03 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Steffen Persvold wrote:
>
> > Can generic_make_request() be called from interrupt level (or tasklet)
> > ?
>
> no.

In theory, READA from interrupt context would be ok, though. That
doesn't work in real-life due to the non flag saving spin locking in
__make_request.

-- Jens Axboe

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