Re: BUG or not? GFP_KERNEL with interrupts disabled.

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Thu, 27 Mar 2003 11:53:14 -0800 (PST)

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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