scheduling in kmalloc()

Vasu Varma P V (pvvvarma@techmas.hcltech.com)
Fri, 06 Jul 2001 17:27:53 +0530


if we use any thing other than GFP_ATOMIC, does it result in scheduling
out the process if there is no memory available?
with GFP_KERNRL, I think we try freeing pages to service the current
request.
or is there any possibility of kmalloc() failing even with GFP_KERNEL?

thx,
Vasu.

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