Messages in this thread | | | From | Dave Peterson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2 (repost)] mm: serialize OOM kill operations | Date | Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:24:19 -0700 |
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On Friday 28 April 2006 15:16, Andrew Morton wrote: > Dave Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov> wrote: > > Yes I am familiar with this sort of problem. :-) > > Andrea has long advocated that the memory allocator shouldn't infinitely > loop for small __GFP_WAIT allocations. ie: ultimately we should return > NULL back to the caller. > > Usually this will cause the correct process to exit. Sometimes it won't. > > Did you try it?
Haven't tried it yet. Sounds like a good idea. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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