From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262589AbVF2OYT (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:24:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262590AbVF2OYS (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:24:18 -0400 Received: from mail.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.232.198]:34207 "EHLO moskovskaya.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262589AbVF2OYF (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:24:05 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:23:17 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: Denis Vlasenko Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org, Arjan van de Ven , Jens Axboe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kmalloc without GFP_xxx? Message-ID: <20050629142317.GB2130@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <200506291402.18064.vda@ilport.com.ua> <1120045024.3196.34.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <200506291714.32990.vda@ilport.com.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200506291714.32990.vda@ilport.com.ua> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 29 June 2005 17:14:32 +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > > This is why I always use _irqsave. Less error prone. > And locking is a very easy to get 'slightly' wrong, thus > I trade 0.1% of performance for code simplicity. But sometimes you get lucky and trade 100ms latency for code simplicity. Of course, the audio people don't mind anymore, now that we have all sorts of realtime patches. Everyone's happy! Jörn -- He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book. -- B. Franklin