On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 12:19, Sriram Narasimhan wrote:
> How much of memory can be allocated from a tasklet ? [ kmalloc
> (GFP_ATOMIC) ].
It depends. Asking for 2.5MB of GFP_ATOMIC is a lot.
Perhaps you should use the keventd task queue, which runs in process
context and thus sleeps. You can allocate using kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) or
even vmalloc().
Robert Love
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