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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	stable@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	Sven Geggus <lists@fuchsschwanzdomain.de>,
	Karol Lewandowski <karol.k.lewandowski@gmail.com>,
	Tobias Oetiker <tobi@oetiker.ch>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
	Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>,
	kernel-testers@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] page allocator: Do not allow interrupts to use ALLOC_HARDER
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:59:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AECCF6A.4020206@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091031201158.GB29536@elf.ucw.cz>

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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-31 23:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-27 13:40 [PATCH 0/3] Reduce GFP_ATOMIC allocation failures, partial fix V3 Mel Gorman
2009-10-27 13:40 ` [PATCH 2/3] page allocator: Do not allow interrupts to use ALLOC_HARDER Mel Gorman
     [not found]   ` <1256650833-15516-3-git-send-email-mel-wPRd99KPJ+uzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
2009-10-27 20:09     ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]       ` <20091027130924.fa903f5a.akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2009-10-27 21:12         ` David Rientjes
     [not found]           ` <alpine.DEB.2.00.0910271411530.9183-X6Q0R45D7oAcqpCFd4KODRPsWskHk0ljAL8bYrjMMd8@public.gmane.org>
2009-10-31 18:40             ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-31 19:51               ` David Rientjes
2009-10-31 20:11                 ` Pavel Machek
     [not found]                   ` <20091031201158.GB29536-I/5MKhXcvmPrBKCeMvbIDA@public.gmane.org>
2009-10-31 21:19                     ` David Rientjes
2009-10-31 22:29                       ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-31 22:55                         ` Rik van Riel
     [not found]                           ` <4AECC04B.9060808-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-01  7:35                             ` Pavel Machek
     [not found]                               ` <20091101073527.GB32720-I/5MKhXcvmPrBKCeMvbIDA@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-01 12:37                                 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-11-01 14:44                               ` Rik van Riel
     [not found]                                 ` <4AED9EB4.5080601-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-01 19:32                                   ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-02 16:38                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-10-31 23:59                   ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2009-11-02 16:42                     ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-02 20:53                       ` David Rientjes
2009-11-03 17:10                         ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-04  1:46                           ` David Rientjes
     [not found]                             ` <alpine.DEB.2.00.0911031739380.1187-X6Q0R45D7oAcqpCFd4KODRPsWskHk0ljAL8bYrjMMd8@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-04  9:01                               ` Pavel Machek
     [not found]                                 ` <20091104090140.GA14694-I/5MKhXcvmPrBKCeMvbIDA@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-09 10:11                                   ` Mel Gorman
2009-10-27 13:40 ` [PATCH 3/3] vmscan: Force kswapd to take notice faster when high-order watermarks are being hit Mel Gorman
     [not found]   ` <1256650833-15516-4-git-send-email-mel-wPRd99KPJ+uzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
2009-10-27 18:18     ` Rik van Riel
2009-10-27 20:19   ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]     ` <20091027131905.410ec04a.akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2009-10-28  3:54       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-10-28 10:29       ` Mel Gorman
2009-10-28 19:47         ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]           ` <20091028124756.7af44b6b.akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-02 16:05             ` Mel Gorman
2009-11-02 17:32               ` Frans Pop
     [not found]                 ` <200911021832.59035.elendil-EIBgga6/0yRmR6Xm/wNWPw@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-02 17:38                   ` Mel Gorman
2009-11-02 20:36                     ` Mel Gorman
2009-11-03 22:01                     ` Frans Pop
     [not found]                       ` <200911032301.59662.elendil-EIBgga6/0yRmR6Xm/wNWPw@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-03 22:08                         ` Mel Gorman
2009-11-04  0:01                           ` Frans Pop
2009-11-04  1:18                             ` Mel Gorman
     [not found]                               ` <20091104011811.GG22046-wPRd99KPJ+uzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-04  2:05                                 ` Frans Pop
2009-11-04  2:08                                   ` Frans Pop
     [not found]                                   ` <200911040305.59352.elendil-EIBgga6/0yRmR6Xm/wNWPw@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-04 15:48                                     ` Mel Gorman
     [not found]                                       ` <20091104154853.GM22046-wPRd99KPJ+uzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-04 20:57                                         ` Frans Pop
     [not found]                                           ` <200911042157.25020.elendil-EIBgga6/0yRmR6Xm/wNWPw@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-05 16:48                                             ` [PATCH 3/3] vmscan: Force kswapd to take notice faster when high-order watermarks are being hit (data on latencies available) Mel Gorman
     [not found]                                               ` <20091105164832.GB25926-wPRd99KPJ+uzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-12 11:36                                                 ` Frans Pop
2009-11-04  2:08                                 ` [PATCH 3/3] vmscan: Force kswapd to take notice faster when high-order watermarks are being hit Mel Gorman
     [not found] ` <1256650833-15516-1-git-send-email-mel-wPRd99KPJ+uzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
2009-10-27 13:40   ` [PATCH 1/3] page allocator: Always wake kswapd when restarting an allocation attempt after direct reclaim failed Mel Gorman
2009-10-28 13:02   ` [PATCH 0/3] Reduce GFP_ATOMIC allocation failures, partial fix V3 Karol Lewandowski

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