Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:21:48 +0900 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] use oom_killer_disabled in page fault oom path | From | Minchan Kim <> |
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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
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