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SubjectRe: [patch 08/11 -mmotm] oom: invoke oom killer for __GFP_NOFAIL
On Mon, 11 May 2009, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:

> > The oom killer must be invoked regardless of the order if the allocation
> > is __GFP_NOFAIL, otherwise it will loop forever when reclaim fails to
> > free some memory.
>
> This is intensional behavior. plus you change very widely caller bahavior.
> if you don't have good test program, I nak this.
>

What exactly are you objecting to? You don't want the oom killer called
for a __GFP_NOFAIL allocation above PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER that could not
reclaim any memory and would prefer that it loop endlessly in the page
allocator? What's the purpose of that if the oom killer could free a very
large memory hogging task?


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