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Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 12:53:46 -0800 (PST)
From: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
cc: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
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KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] page allocator: Do not allow interrupts to use
ALLOC_HARDER
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> What is realtime in this scenario? There are no guarantees that reclaim
> wont have to occur. There are no guarantees anymore and therefore you
> cannot really call this realtime.
>
Realtime in this scenario is anything with a priority of MAX_RT_PRIO or
lower.
> Is realtime anything more than: "I want to have my patches merged"?
>
These allocations are not using ~__GFP_WAIT for a reason, they can block
on direct reclaim.
But we're convoluting this issue _way_ more than it needs to be. We have
used ALLOC_HARDER for these tasks as a convenience for over four years.
The fix here is to address an omittion in the page allocator refactoring
code that went into 2.6.31 that dropped the check for !in_interrupt().
If you'd like to raise the concern about the rt exemption being given
ALLOC_HARDER, then it is seperate from this fix.
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