linux-kernel - Re: How to check whether executing in atomic context?

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Message-ID: <20091014192246.GC5755@const.famille.thibault.fr>
Date:	Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:22:46 +0200
From:	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc:	"Leonidas ." <leonidas137@...il.com>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to check whether executing in atomic context?

Stefan Richter, le Wed 14 Oct 2009 21:15:39 +0200, a écrit :
> > I am not aware of any Linux kernel module which can comply to this
> > kind of use case, what would be the most optimal thing to do here?
> 
> And preallocation is not feasible either?

Or deferring work to a kernel thread.

Samuel
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