Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 11:38:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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       Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] page allocator: Do not allow interrupts to use
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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.

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