> > Any limitation would show up at submit time. Either it will work or it
> > won't work. If it fails, it's most likely a memory allocation problem.
>
> Another way to show up at submit time would be waiting for memory
> to free up ... although UHCI does allocations at GFP_ATOMIC, so that
> particular graceful degradation doesn't exist; submit would just fail.
Yes, but you may exhaust a slab during submit. It would still work,
but the kernel would have to go down to the page allocator and give
you cold pages. Failure happens only if the page allocator fails.
Regards
Oliver
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