From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4724FC38.30909@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 02:46:40 +0530 From: Balbir Singh Reply-To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: OOM notifications References: <20071018201531.GA5938@dmt> <20071026140201.ae52757c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20071026140201.ae52757c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, drepper@redhat.com, riel@redhat.com, Martin Bligh , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Andrew Morton wrote: > It get more complicated with NUMA memory nodes and cgroup memory > controllers. > At OLS this year, users wanted user space notification of OOM for cgroup memory controller. When a group is about to OOM, a notification can help an external application re-adjust memory limits across the system. Keeping some memory reserved for handling OOM, this scheme could be extended to handle global OOM conditions as well. -- Warm Regards, Balbir Singh Linux Technology Center IBM, ISTL -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org