Re: [PATCH 2/3] page allocator: Do not allow interrupts to use ALLOC_HARDER

[Rik van Riel]

On 10/31/2009 06:29 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:

> Well, you are trying to make rt heuristic more precise.

No he's not.  He is trying to make it only apply to real time
tasks, not to interrupts that happen to interrupt the realtime
tasks.

> I believe it would be better to simply remove it.

You are against trying to give the realtime tasks a best effort
advantage at memory allocation?

Realtime apps often *have* to allocate memory on the kernel side,
because they use network system calls, etc...

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