> > I believe it would be better to simply remove it. > > You are against trying to give the realtime tasks a best effort > advantage at memory allocation? Yes. Those memory reserves were for kernel, GPF_ATOMIC and stuff. Now realtime tasks are allowed to eat into them. That feels wrong. "realtime" tasks are not automatically "more important". > Realtime apps often *have* to allocate memory on the kernel side, > because they use network system calls, etc... So what? As soon as they do that, they lose any guarantees, anyway. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
