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From: Rahul Karnik <rahul@genebrew.com>
To: rusty@linux.co.intel.com
Cc: riel@conectiva.com.br, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 00:18:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F614912.3090801@genebrew.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200309120219.h8C2JANc004514@penguin.co.intel.com>

Rusty Lynch wrote:
> The patch below uses a notifier list for other components to register
> to be called when an out of memory condition occurs.

How does this interact with the overcommit handling? Doesn't strict 
overcommit also not oom, but rather return a memory allocation error? 
Could we not add another overcommit mode where oom conditions cause a 
kernel panic?

Thanks,
Rahul


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From: Rahul Karnik <rahul@genebrew.com>
To: rusty@linux.co.intel.com
Cc: riel@conectiva.com.br, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 00:18:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F614912.3090801@genebrew.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200309120219.h8C2JANc004514@penguin.co.intel.com>

Rusty Lynch wrote:
> The patch below uses a notifier list for other components to register
> to be called when an out of memory condition occurs.

How does this interact with the overcommit handling? Doesn't strict 
overcommit also not oom, but rather return a memory allocation error? 
Could we not add another overcommit mode where oom conditions cause a 
kernel panic?

Thanks,
Rahul

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-12  4:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-12  2:19 [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes Rusty Lynch
2003-09-12  2:19 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-09-12  4:18 ` Rahul Karnik [this message]
2003-09-12  4:18   ` Rahul Karnik
2003-09-12  4:31   ` Chris Friesen
2003-09-12  4:31     ` Chris Friesen
2003-09-12  4:40     ` Rahul Karnik
2003-09-12  4:40       ` Rahul Karnik
2003-09-12  4:48       ` Robert Love
2003-09-12  4:48         ` Robert Love
2003-09-12 11:18     ` Helge Hafting
2003-09-12 11:18       ` Helge Hafting
2003-09-12 14:07       ` Chris Friesen
2003-09-12 14:07         ` Chris Friesen
2003-09-12 14:30     ` M. Edward Borasky
2003-09-12  4:47   ` Robert Love
2003-09-12  4:47     ` Robert Love
2003-09-12  4:50 ` Robert Love
2003-09-12 10:42   ` Alan Cox
2003-09-12  8:58 ` Tvrtko A. Uršulin
2003-09-13  2:21   ` Rusty Lynch
2003-09-15 10:59     ` Tvrtko A. Uršulin
2003-09-13 17:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-13 17:48   ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-13 20:52   ` Robert Love
2003-09-13 20:52     ` Robert Love
2003-09-13 22:04     ` Helge Hafting
2003-09-14  0:55       ` Robert Love
2003-09-14  9:12         ` Helge Hafting
2003-09-14  5:28     ` Chris Friesen
2003-09-14  5:28       ` Chris Friesen
2003-09-15  0:11     ` Mike S
2003-09-15  0:11       ` Mike S

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