From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail191.messagelabs.com (mail191.messagelabs.com [216.82.242.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 786BF6B0044 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:48:15 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4B265028.4080808@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:48:08 -0500 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] mm: Give up allocation if the task have fatal signal References: <20091211164651.036f5340@annuminas.surriel.com> <20091214210823.BBAE.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <20091214213224.BBC6.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <20091214213224.BBC6.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: lwoodman@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, minchan.kim@gmail.com List-ID: On 12/14/2009 07:32 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > In OOM case, almost processes may be in vmscan. There isn't any reason > the killed process continue allocation. process exiting free lots pages > rather than greedy vmscan. > > Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel -- All rights reversed. -- 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