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

[Rik van Riel]

On 10/31/2009 04:11 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:

> But we can't guarantee that enough memory will be ready in the
> reserves. So if realtime task relies on it, it is broken, and will
> fail to meet its deadlines from time to time.

Any realtime task that does networking (which may be the
majority of realtime tasks) relies on the kernel memory
allocator.

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