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

[Rik van Riel]

On 11/01/2009 02:35 AM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > 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?
>
> Yes. Those memory reserves were for kernel, GPF_ATOMIC and stuff. Now
> realtime tasks are allowed to eat into them. That feels wrong.
>
> "realtime" tasks are not automatically "more important".
>
> > Realtime apps often *have* to allocate memory on the kernel side,
> > because they use network system calls, etc...
>
> So what? As soon as they do that, they lose any guarantees, anyway.

They might lose the absolute guarantee, but that's no reason
not to give it our best effort!

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