Re: [PATCH] kernel/async.c:introduce async_schedule*_atomic

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Wed, 13 May 2009 09:47:28 +0200
Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 13 May 2009 03:20:13 +0200,
> Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 08:28:15AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> 
> > > Also we still allow async_schedule*()  to run a job synchronously
> > > if out of memory
> > > or other failure. This can keep consistency with before.
> > 
> > 
> > Yes, but also most of the current users of async_schedule() could
> > call it with GFP_KERNEL. For now it's not an issue because it is
> > not widely used, but who knows how that will evolve...
> 
> Well, if we want to change the interface, now would be a good time
> since there are still few callers.

I would prefer it that if we make a more complex interface, we keep the
current simple interface as a wrapper, so that the simple case can
remain simple.

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