Re: [PATCH] Improve pci_alloc_consistent wrapper on preemptivekernels

[Andi Kleen]

Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> Certainly.  Therefore, changing from GFP_ATOMIC will increase
> likelihood of breakage, no?

No, the atomic checks prevents that. When the code wasn't broken
before on preemptive kernels it won't be broken now.

-Andi

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