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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 12:46:16 -0700
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: CHN_LOCK()
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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

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