Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Sep 2015 16:08:42 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm/oom_kill.c: don't kill TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks |
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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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