Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:42:57 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [patch] cpusets: do not allow TIF_MEMDIE tasks to allocate globally |
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On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, David Rientjes wrote: > > > Reverts git commit c596d9f320aaf30d28c1d793ff3a976dee1db8f5. > > > > OOM-killed tasks, marked as TIF_MEMDIE, should not be able to access > > memory outside its cpuset because it could potentially cause other > > exclusive cpusets to OOM themselves. > > Those terminating tasks need that memory to terminate properly right? >
No, they need access only to the memory reserves provided by the difference in their low and no watermarks on a per-cpuset basis. - 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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