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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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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-01 0:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 115+ 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 ` Mel Gorman
2009-10-27 13:40 ` [PATCH 1/3] page allocator: Always wake kswapd when restarting an allocation attempt after direct reclaim failed Mel Gorman
2009-10-27 13:40 ` Mel Gorman
2009-10-27 13:40 ` Mel Gorman
2009-10-27 13:40 ` [PATCH 2/3] page allocator: Do not allow interrupts to use ALLOC_HARDER Mel Gorman
2009-10-27 13:40 ` Mel Gorman
2009-10-27 20:09 ` Andrew Morton
2009-10-27 20:09 ` Andrew Morton
2009-10-27 20:09 ` Andrew Morton
2009-10-27 21:12 ` David Rientjes
2009-10-27 21:12 ` David Rientjes
2009-10-27 21:12 ` David Rientjes
2009-10-31 18:40 ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-31 18:40 ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-31 18:40 ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-31 19:51 ` David Rientjes
2009-10-31 19:51 ` David Rientjes
2009-10-31 20:11 ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-31 20:11 ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-31 21:19 ` David Rientjes
2009-10-31 21:19 ` David Rientjes
2009-10-31 21:19 ` David Rientjes
2009-10-31 22:29 ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-31 22:29 ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-31 22:55 ` Rik van Riel
2009-10-31 22:55 ` Rik van Riel
2009-11-01 7:35 ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-01 7:35 ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-01 7:35 ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-01 12:37 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-11-01 12:37 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-11-01 12:37 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-11-01 14:44 ` Rik van Riel
2009-11-01 14:44 ` Rik van Riel
2009-11-01 19:32 ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-01 19:32 ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-01 19:32 ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-02 16:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-02 16:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-10-31 23:59 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2009-10-31 23:59 ` Rik van Riel
2009-11-02 16:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-02 16:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-02 20:53 ` David Rientjes
2009-11-02 20:53 ` David Rientjes
2009-11-02 20:53 ` David Rientjes
2009-11-03 17:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-03 17:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-04 1:46 ` David Rientjes
2009-11-04 1:46 ` David Rientjes
2009-11-04 1:46 ` David Rientjes
2009-11-04 9:01 ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-04 9:01 ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-04 9:01 ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-09 10:11 ` Mel Gorman
2009-11-09 10:11 ` Mel Gorman
2009-11-09 10:11 ` Mel Gorman
2009-10-28 10:24 ` Mel Gorman
2009-10-28 10:24 ` 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
2009-10-27 13:40 ` Mel Gorman
2009-10-27 18:18 ` Rik van Riel
[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 18:18 ` Rik van Riel
2009-10-27 20:19 ` Andrew Morton
2009-10-27 20:19 ` Andrew Morton
2009-10-28 3:54 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-10-28 3:54 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-10-28 3:54 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-10-28 10:29 ` Mel Gorman
2009-10-28 10:29 ` Mel Gorman
2009-10-28 10:29 ` Mel Gorman
2009-10-28 19:47 ` Andrew Morton
2009-10-28 19:47 ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-02 16:05 ` Mel Gorman
2009-11-02 16:05 ` Mel Gorman
2009-11-02 16:05 ` Mel Gorman
2009-11-02 17:32 ` Frans Pop
2009-11-02 17:32 ` Frans Pop
2009-11-02 17:38 ` Mel Gorman
2009-11-02 17:38 ` Mel Gorman
2009-11-02 17:38 ` Mel Gorman
2009-11-02 20:36 ` Mel Gorman
2009-11-02 20:36 ` Mel Gorman
2009-11-03 22:01 ` Frans Pop
2009-11-03 22:08 ` Mel Gorman
2009-11-03 22:08 ` Mel Gorman
2009-11-03 22:08 ` Mel Gorman
2009-11-04 0:01 ` Frans Pop
2009-11-04 1:18 ` Mel Gorman
2009-11-04 1:18 ` Mel Gorman
2009-11-04 2:05 ` Frans Pop
2009-11-04 2:05 ` Frans Pop
2009-11-04 2:05 ` Frans Pop
2009-11-04 2:08 ` Frans Pop
2009-11-04 2:08 ` Frans Pop
2009-11-04 15:48 ` Mel Gorman
2009-11-04 15:48 ` Mel Gorman
2009-11-04 15:48 ` Mel Gorman
2009-11-04 20:57 ` Frans Pop
2009-11-04 20:57 ` Frans Pop
2009-11-04 20:57 ` Frans Pop
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
2009-11-05 16:48 ` Mel Gorman
2009-11-05 16:48 ` Mel Gorman
2009-11-12 11:36 ` Frans Pop
2009-11-12 11:36 ` Frans Pop
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
2009-11-04 2:08 ` Mel Gorman
2009-11-04 2:08 ` Mel Gorman
2009-10-28 13:02 ` [PATCH 0/3] Reduce GFP_ATOMIC allocation failures, partial fix V3 Karol Lewandowski
2009-10-28 13:02 ` Karol Lewandowski
2009-10-28 13:02 ` Karol Lewandowski
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