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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: clameter@engr.sgi.com, largret@gmail.com,
	76306.1226@compuserve.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	axboe@suse.de
Subject: Re: OOM-killer too aggressive?
Date: 28 Feb 2006 02:25:53 +0100
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 02:25:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060228012553.GA52585@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060227165921.242f6810.akpm@osdl.org>

> I was thinking that your __GFP_NOOOM was a thinko.  How would it differ
> from __GFP_NORETRY?

__GFP_NORETRY seems to skip at least one retry pass as far as I can see.
__GFP_NOOOM wouldn't. But perhaps the additional pass only makes sense
with oom killing? I'm not sure - that is why i was asking.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-28  1:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-26 14:35 OOM-killer too aggressive? Chuck Ebbert
2006-02-26 18:21 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-26 20:39   ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-26 21:04     ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-26 21:06   ` Chris Largret
2006-02-26 21:31     ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-26 23:00       ` Chris Largret
2006-02-27  0:20         ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-27  1:01           ` Chris Largret
2006-02-27  1:57             ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-27  6:34               ` Chris Largret
2006-02-26 23:47       ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-26 23:51       ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-27 22:30         ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-28  0:41           ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-28  0:59             ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-28  1:03               ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-28  1:25               ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-02-28  1:38                 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-28 12:09                   ` Andi Kleen
     [not found] <5KvnZ-4uN-27@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-02-26 18:39 ` Robert Hancock
2006-02-26 21:56   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2006-02-26 20:56     ` Chris Largret
2006-02-27  0:22       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2006-02-27  1:48         ` Chris Largret
2006-02-27 15:47           ` Marcelo Tosatti
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-26 23:32 Chuck Ebbert

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