From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail202.messagelabs.com (mail202.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.227]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 089D36B0078 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 11:39:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (smtp.ultrahosting.com [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ultrahosting.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C21CC82C6E9 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 11:46:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from smtp.ultrahosting.com ([74.213.174.253]) by localhost (smtp.ultrahosting.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id zQ8F9NOM+cGp for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 11:46:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from V090114053VZO-1 (unknown [74.213.171.31]) by smtp.ultrahosting.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ED2382C770 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 11:46:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 11:38:50 -0500 (EST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] page allocator: Do not allow interrupts to use ALLOC_HARDER In-Reply-To: <4AED9EB4.5080601@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <1256650833-15516-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <1256650833-15516-3-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <20091027130924.fa903f5a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20091031184054.GB1475@ucw.cz> <20091031201158.GB29536@elf.ucw.cz> <20091031222905.GA32720@elf.ucw.cz> <4AECC04B.9060808@redhat.com> <20091101073527.GB32720@elf.ucw.cz> <4AED9EB4.5080601@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Rik van Riel Cc: Pavel Machek , David Rientjes , Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman , stable@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Frans Pop , Jiri Kosina , Sven Geggus , Karol Lewandowski , Tobias Oetiker , KOSAKI Motohiro , Pekka Enberg , Stephan von Krawczynski , kernel-testers@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, Rik van Riel wrote: > > So what? As soon as they do that, they lose any guarantees, anyway. > > They might lose the absolute guarantee, but that's no reason > not to give it our best effort! Then its not realtime anymore. "Realtime" seems to be some wishy washy marketing term that flexes in a variety of ways. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org