GFP_ATOMIC means roughly make the allocation operation atomic. This
means that the kernel will try to find the memory using a pile of free
memory set aside for urgent allocation. If that pile doesn't have
enough free pages, the operation will fail. This flag is useful for
allocation within
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:03 PM, nidhi mittal nidhimitta...@gmail.com wrote:
hi
i have written a very simple ram based block device driver
processing request asynchronously
wherein
in request function -- dequeue the req from req queue and add it to the
linked list
then in the function
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Lal learner.ker...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:03 PM, nidhi mittal nidhimitta...@gmail.com wrote:
hi
i have written a very simple ram based block device driver
processing request asynchronously
wherein
in request function -- dequeue the req
hi
i have written a very simple ram based block device driver
processing request asynchronously
wherein
in request function -- dequeue the req from req queue and add it to the
linked list
then in the function triggered by timer
handle each req from the linked list
then blk_end_requets is called
