From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Dave Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
riel@surriel.com, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: serialize OOM kill operations
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:10:55 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <444EF2CF.1020100@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200604251701.31899.dsp@llnl.gov>
Dave Peterson wrote:
>The patch below modifies the behavior of the OOM killer so that only
>one OOM kill operation can be in progress at a time. When running a
>test program that eats lots of memory, I was observing behavior where
>the OOM killer gets impatient and shoots one or more system daemons
>in addition to the program that is eating lots of memory. This fixes
>the problematic behavior.
>
Hi Dave,
Firstly why not use a semaphore and trylocks instead of your homebrew
lock?
Second, can you arrange it without using the extra field in mm_struct
and operation in the mmput fast path?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-26 4:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-26 0:01 [PATCH 1/2] mm: serialize OOM kill operations Dave Peterson
2006-04-26 4:10 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-04-26 17:14 ` Dave Peterson
2006-04-27 3:33 ` Nick Piggin
2006-04-27 16:56 ` Dave Peterson
2006-04-28 5:00 ` Nick Piggin
2006-04-28 5:05 ` Nick Piggin
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