From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757037AbXFFH4S (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 03:56:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752129AbXFFH4K (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 03:56:10 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-4-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:40477 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751244AbXFFH4J (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 03:56:09 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 00:56:10 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: David Rientjes Cc: peterz@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, ak@suse.de, clameter@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] cpusets: do not allow TIF_MEMDIE tasks to allocate globally Message-Id: <20070606005610.a8c783ce.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: References: <1181110846.7348.154.camel@twins> <1181113753.7348.164.camel@twins> <20070606003421.1107a8bf.pj@sgi.com> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.3; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David wrote: > That is, unless you can guarantee this type of problem will not happen again Well, I certainly cannot guarantee that. Heck, I can't even guarantee isn't happening right now, somewhere else. But I'm no memory guru. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.925.600.0401