Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Apr 2018 17:29:41 +0200 | From | Oleg Nesterov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] drm/scheduler: Don't call wait_event_killable for signaled process. |
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On 04/30, Christian König wrote: > > Well when the process is killed we don't care about correctness any more, we > just want to get rid of it as quickly as possible (OOM situation etc...).
OK,
> But it is perfectly possible that a process submits some render commands and > then calls exit() or terminates because of a SIGTERM, SIGINT etc..
This doesn't differ from SIGKILL. I mean, any unhandled fatal signal translates to SIGKILL and I think this is fine.
but this doesn't really matter,
> So what we essentially need is to distinct between a SIGKILL (which means > stop processing as soon as possible) and any other reason because then we > don't want to annoy the user with garbage on the screen (even if it's just > for a few milliseconds).
For what?
OK, I see another email from Andrey, I'll reply to that email...
Oleg.
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