Re: Linux killed Kenny, bastard!

[Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>]

Hi.

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:35:36AM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro (kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com) wrote:
> > +	/*
> > +	 * We did not find the process with requested string in its name,
> > +	 * so lets search for the usual victim.
> > +	 */
> > +	if (name && !chosen) {
> > +		name = NULL;
> > +		goto again;
> > +	}
> > +
> >  	return chosen;
> 
> this patch makes oom handling slower.
> slow bad process selection cause next another out of memory.
> 
> then, your trouble become large.
 
It really does not. As I described, when task does not have a valid
name, all checks are skipped.

So effectively it equals to the additional check in the loop, which
although being non-zero, but really is very small, since most of the
time process does not match and only single letter of the name should be
checked.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov