Re: [patch 0/7 -mm] oom killer rewrite

KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-02-15T02:51:36Z

> This patchset is a rewrite of the out of memory killer to address several
> issues that have been raised recently. The most notable change is a
> complete rewrite of the badness heuristic that determines which task is
> killed; the goal was to make it as simple and predictable as possible
> while still addressing issues that plague the VM.
>
> This patchset is based on mmotm-2010-02-05-15-06 because of the following
> dependencies:

At first, I'm glad that you tackle this issue. unfortunatelly I'm very busy now.
but I'll make a time for reviewing this patches asap.

>
> [patch 4/7] oom: badness heuristic rewrite:
> mm-count-swap-usage.patch
>
> [patch 5/7] oom: replace sysctls with quick mode:
> sysctl-clean-up-vm-related-variable-delcarations.patch
>
> To apply to mainline, download 2.6.33-rc7 and apply
>
> mm-clean-up-mm_counter.patch
> mm-avoid-false-sharing-of-mm_counter.patch
> mm-avoid-false_sharing-of-mm_counter-checkpatch-fixes.patch
> mm-count-swap-usage.patch
> mm-count-swap-usage-checkpatch-fixes.patch
> mm-introduce-dump_page-and-print-symbolic-flag-names.patch
> sysctl-clean-up-vm-related-variable-declarations.patch
> sysctl-clean-up-vm-related-variable-declarations-fix.patch
>
> from http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out.tar.gz first.
> ---
> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 78 ++++---
> Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 51 ++---
> fs/proc/base.c | 13 +-
> include/linux/mempolicy.h | 13 +-
> include/linux/oom.h | 18 +-
> kernel/sysctl.c | 15 +-
> mm/mempolicy.c | 39 +++
> mm/oom_kill.c | 455 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
> mm/page_alloc.c | 3 +
> 9 files changed, 383 insertions(+), 302 deletions(-)
>
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