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DateThu, 7 May 2009 15:38:24 -0700
FromAndrew Morton <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/5] mm: Add __GFP_NO_OOM_KILL flag
On Fri, 8 May 2009 00:14:48 +0200
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:

> IOW, you need to freeze the user space totally before trying to disable the
> OOM killer.

Not necessarily. We only need to take action if a task is about to
start oom-killing - presumably by taking a nap.

If a process is sitting there happily computing pi then we can leave it
running.


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