On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 03:46:02PM -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 11:48:26PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
>  > This looks OK, although I'm not sure calling malloc here (from interrupt
>  > context) is really better.
> 
> malloc() is safe for interrupt context use, so long as the interrupt
> is blocked by splvm() (which IPL_BIO interrupts are).

Yes. I was just wondering the malloc overhead here was worth it for 256
bytes, and if a better solution could not be found.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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