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 -- 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
