On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:03:05PM -0400, Christoph Lameter wrote: > There are now rt dependencies in the page allocator that screw things up? >
The rt logic was present before. > And an rt flag causes the page allocator to try harder meaning it adds > latency. > The harder term in the flag is a bit misleading. The effect of ALLOC_HARDER is that the watermark is lower for the task. i.e. a rt task is less likely to enter direct reclaim than normal tasks so it should have less latency. > ? > > -- 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 [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
