Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 12:46:16 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, Evan Sarmiento <evms@cs.bu.edu> Subject: Re: CHN_LOCK() Message-ID: <3D0B9988.4A34CE@mindspring.com> References: <200206151734.g5FHYBs26505@csa.bu.edu> <20020615180627.GO85244@elvis.mu.org>
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Maxime Henrion wrote: > Calling malloc() with M_NOWAIT isn't a good fix as well, because there > is no reason to make this code fail if memory if not available at the > moment, and not have it sleep for it instead. M_NOWAIT should only be > used while in interrupt context, as far as I know. The mbuf allocation code implies this in all cases, not just the interrupt case. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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