[PATCH 2/6] mm/page_alloc: Treat RT tasks similar to GFP_HIGH

[Mel Gorman]

RT tasks are allowed to dip below the min reserve but ALLOC_HARDER is
typically combined with ALLOC_MIN_RESERVE so RT tasks are a little
unusual. While there is some justification for allowing RT tasks
access to memory reserves, there is a strong chance that a RT task
that is also under memory pressure is at risk of missing deadlines
anyway. Relax how much reserves an RT task can access by treating
it the same as __GFP_HIGH allocations.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 3b37909617bc..da746e9eb2cf 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -4852,7 +4852,7 @@ gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfp_t gfp_mask)
 		 */
 		alloc_flags &= ~ALLOC_CPUSET;
 	} else if (unlikely(rt_task(current)) && in_task())
-		alloc_flags |= ALLOC_HARDER;
+		alloc_flags |= ALLOC_MIN_RESERVE;
 
 	alloc_flags = gfp_to_alloc_flags_cma(gfp_mask, alloc_flags);
 
-- 
2.35.3