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List:       linux-scsi
Subject:    Re: queuecommand called in IRQ run level
From:       Alan Cox <alan () lxorguk ! ukuu ! org ! uk>
Date:       2003-08-27 15:01:58
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On Sul, 2003-08-24 at 18:46, Rabeeh Khoury wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Is it possible that queuecommand be called in ISR time ? (IRQ run level)
> I want to do kmalloc with GFP_KERNEL priority in queuecommand (or 
> actually pci_pool_alloc which eventually will call kmalloc in pool 
> getting low in memory).

You cannot use GFP_KERNEL in this situation - it may block, it may cause
further I/O. 

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