* Xavier Galleri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010111 11:27] wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I have reached a point where I am wondering if a call to 'malloc' with
> the M_NOWAIT flag is not falling asleep !
M_NOWAIT shouldn't sleep.
> In fact, I suspect that the interrupted context is somewhere during a
> call to 'malloc' (I increment a counter just before calling malloc and
> increment another just after and the difference is one !) while I have
> called 'splnet' beforehand, thus normally preventing competing with any
> network isr. I assume that this shouldnever occur unless the code is
> somewhere calling 'sleep' and provoke acontext switch.
if you add 1 to a variable the difference is expected to be one.
> Is there anybody who can help on this ?
I'm not sure, you need to be more specific/clear.
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