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

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed Nov 04 2009 - 04:01:57 EST



> I hope we can move this to another thread if people would like to remove
> this exemption completely instead of talking about this trivial fix, which
> I doubt there's any objection to.

I'm arguing that this "trivial fix" is wrong, and that you should just
remove those two lines.

If going into reserves from interrupts hurts, doing that from task
context will hurt, too. "realtime" task should not be normally allowed
to "hurt" the system like that.
Pavel
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