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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, pj@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Terminate process that fails on a constrained allocation
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 19:13:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602081914.00231.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0602081004060.2648@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On Wednesday 08 February 2006 19:05, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> This patch adds a check before the out of memory killer is invoked. At that
> point performance considerations do not matter much so we just scan the zonelist
> and reconstruct a list of nodes. If the list of nodes does not contain all
> online nodes then this is a constrained allocation and we should not call
> the OOM killer.

Looks good.

Ok I would have used an noinline function instead of putting the code inline
to prevent register pressure etc. and make it more readable.

-Andi


  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-08 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-08 18:05 Terminate process that fails on a constrained allocation Christoph Lameter
2006-02-08 18:13 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-02-08 18:34   ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-08 18:54     ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-08 19:01       ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-08 19:15         ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-08 18:33 ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-08 18:42   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-08 18:57     ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-08 19:02       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-08 19:05       ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-08 20:22         ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-08 20:36           ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-08 20:55             ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-08 21:01               ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-08 21:03                 ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-08 21:21                   ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-08 21:39                     ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-08 22:11                       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-08 22:41                         ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-08 23:29                           ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-08 23:35                           ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-08 22:48                         ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-08 23:28                       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-08 23:43                         ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-08 23:54                           ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-08 23:57                             ` Andi Kleen
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2006-02-08 20:14 linux

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