Re: [PATCH 10 of 16] stop useless vm trashing while we wait the TIF_MEMDIE task to exit

Christoph Lameter
2007-06-09T03:01:58Z

On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> I'm sorry to inform you that the oom killing in current mainline has
> always been a global event not a per-node one, regardless of the fixes
> I just posted.

Wrong. The oom killling is a local event if we are in a constrained
allocation. The allocating task is killed not a random task. That call to
kill the allocating task should not set any global flags.