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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	rientjes@google.com, minchan.kim@gmail.com,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com" <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] oom-kill: add lowmem usage aware oom kill handling
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:19:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100126161952.ee267d1c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100127085355.f5306e78.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:53:55 +0900
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> > Hardly anyone will know to enable
> > it so the feature won't get much testing and this binary decision
> > fractures the testing effort.  It would be much better if we can get
> > everyone running the same code.  I mean, if there are certain workloads
> > on certain machines with which the oom-killer doesn't behave correctly
> > then fix it!
> Yes, I think you're right. But "breaking current behaviro of our servers!"
> arguments kills all proposal to this area and this oom-killer or vmscan is
> a feature should be tested by real users. (I'll write fork-bomb detector
> and RSS based OOM again.)

Well don't break their servers then ;)

What I'm not understanding is: why is it not possible to improve the
behaviour on the affected machines without affecting the behaviour on
other machines?

What are these "servers" to which you refer?  x86_32 servers, I assume
- the patch shouldn't affect 64-bit machines.  Why don't they also want
this treatment and in what way does the patch "break" them?

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-27  0:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-21  5:59 [PATCH] oom-kill: add lowmem usage aware oom kill handling KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-21 15:18 ` Minchan Kim
2010-01-21 23:48   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-22  0:40     ` Minchan Kim
2010-01-22  1:06       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-21 15:29 ` Balbir Singh
2010-01-21 23:54   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-22  6:23 ` [PATCH v2] " KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-22 14:00   ` Minchan Kim
2010-01-22 15:16     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-22 15:41       ` Minchan Kim
2010-01-25  6:15   ` [PATCH v3] " KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-26 23:12     ` Andrew Morton
2010-01-26 23:53       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-27  0:19         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-01-27  0:58           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-27  6:30             ` [PATCH v4 0/2] " KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-27  6:32               ` [PATCH v4 1/2] sysctl clean up vm related variable declarations KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-28  8:54                 ` David Rientjes
2010-01-28 10:30                   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-27  6:33               ` [PATCH v4 2/2] oom-kill: add lowmem usage aware oom kill handling v4 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-28  0:12               ` [PATCH v4 0/2] oom-kill: add lowmem usage aware oom kill handling KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-27 23:56             ` [PATCH v3] " David Rientjes
2010-01-28  0:16             ` Alan Cox
2010-01-28  0:26               ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-28  0:59               ` David Rientjes
2010-01-29  0:25               ` Vedran Furač
2010-01-29  0:35                 ` Alan Cox
2010-01-29  0:57                   ` Vedran Furač
2010-01-29 11:03                     ` Alan Cox
2010-01-30 12:33                       ` Vedran Furač
2010-01-30 12:59                         ` Alan Cox
2010-01-30 17:30                           ` Vedran Furač
2010-01-30 17:45                             ` Alan Cox
2010-01-30 18:17                               ` Vedran Furač
2010-01-27 23:46         ` David Rientjes
2010-01-26 23:16     ` Andrew Morton
2010-01-26 23:44       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-27 23:40     ` David Rientjes
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-01-29 16:11 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-29 16:21 ` Alan Cox
2010-01-29 16:25   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-29 16:30     ` Alan Cox
2010-01-29 16:41       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-29 21:07         ` David Rientjes
2010-01-30 12:46           ` Vedran Furač
2010-01-30 22:53             ` David Rientjes
2010-01-31 20:29               ` Vedran Furač
2010-02-01 10:33                 ` David Rientjes
2010-02-01  0:01           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-02-01 10:28             ` David Rientjes
2010-01-29 21:11     ` David Rientjes

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