Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:47:30 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] oom killer (Core) |
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On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 08:32 -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> It appears the net functional change here is the reentrancy prevention; >> the choice of tasks is policy. The functional change may be accomplished >> with the following:
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 05:52:33PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Your patch would call yield() with the lock held. On an UP machine you > end up in the same code, as spin_locks are NOPs except for the preempt > part. > It's now obsolete by the fixes which were done by Andrea. > I'm wondering why he did not post the final version. Andrea ??? > Attached is the latest working and tested patch. It contains Andrea's > fixes to the oom invocation and my modifications to the selection whom > to kill. > This should really go into mainline.
This should all be split up; it's doing a dozen things at a time.
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