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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm/oom_kill.c: don't kill TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks
    On Sat, 19 Sep 2015, Michal Hocko wrote:

    > Nack to this. TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE should be time constrained/bounded
    > state. Using it as an oom victim criteria makes the victim selection
    > less deterministic which is undesirable. As much as I am aware of
    > potential issues with the current implementation, making the behavior
    > more random doesn't really help.
    >

    Agreed, we can't avoid killing a process simply because it is in D state,
    this isn't an indication that the process will not be able to exit and in
    the worst case could panic the system if all other processes cannot be oom
    killed.


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