> Trying a dynamic memory allocation, and fallback on a single
> pre-allocated bloc of memory, shared by all cpus, protected by a
> spinlock
...
> -
> +     static u64 msg_schedule[80];
> +     static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(msg_schedule_lock);
>       int i;
> -     u64 *W = get_cpu_var(msg_schedule);
> +     u64 *W = kzalloc(sizeof(msg_schedule), GFP_ATOMIC |
__GFP_NOWARN);
>  
> +     
> +     if (!W) {
> +             spin_lock_bh(&msg_schedule_lock);
> +             W = msg_schedule;
> +     }

If this code can be called from an ISR is the kmalloc()
call safe?

If the above is safe, wouldn't it be better to:
1) try to use the static buffer
2) try to kalloc() a buffer
3) spinwait for the static buffer to be free

        David



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