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

[Mel Gorman]

On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 10:01:40AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> > 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

As David points out, it has been the behaviour of the system for 4 years
and removing it should be made as a separate decision and not in the
guise of a fix. In the particular case causing concern, there are a lot
more allocations from interrupt due to network receive than there are
from the activities of tasks with a high priority.

-- 
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab
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