Re: BUG or not? GFP_KERNEL with interrupts disabled.

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Thu Mar 27 2003 - 14:53:14 EST


   From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
   Date: 27 Mar 2003 14:52:11 -0500

   On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 14:39, David S. Miller wrote:
   
> I hadn't considered this, good idea. I'm trying this out right now.
   
   I hope it works. I have a sinking feeling we call it some places that
   may have interrupts disabled...

Your sinking feeling was warranted.

Nearly every hw IRQ implementation invokes irq_exit() with
CPU interrupts off :-( That has to be screwing with performance
as well.
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