[openib-general] [RFC] patch for new send MAD allocation routines

Sean Hefty mshefty at ichips.intel.com
Wed Apr 20 09:02:11 PDT 2005


Roland Dreier wrote:
> Instead of hard-coding GFP_KERNEL:
> 
>     > +	buf = kmalloc(sizeof *send_buf + buf_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> would it make sense to put a gfp_mask into the API and avoid some of
> the heartburn about interrupt context that we've had lately?

That's easy enough to do.

- Sean



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