Re: Tasklet doubt!

Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
11 Apr 2003 12:31:42 -0400


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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