lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2011]   [Apr]   [26]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] use oom_killer_disabled in page fault oom path
From
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Currently oom_killer_disabled is only used in __alloc_pages_slowpath,
>> For page fault oom case it is not considered. One use case is
>> virtio balloon driver, when memory pressure is high, virtio ballooning
>> will cause oom killing due to such as page fault oom.
>
> Other mm guys already accepted but sorry I can't understand your point
> since I am not familiar with virtio.
>
> Now oom_killer_disabled is used by only hibernation and hibernation
> freezes processes so page fault shouldn't happen.
>
> Now are you using oom_killer_disabled in virtio?
> Could you elaborate use case ?

Sorry, I lost your [1/2] in my mail box.
I will see it in marc linux-mm

--
Kind regards,
Minchan Kim


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2011-04-26 10:25    [W:0.053 / U:0.864 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site