Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:38:30 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: OOM-killer too aggressive? |
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Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> wrote: > > > I was thinking that your __GFP_NOOOM was a thinko. How would it differ > > from __GFP_NORETRY? > > __GFP_NORETRY seems to skip at least one retry pass as far as I can see. > __GFP_NOOOM wouldn't. But perhaps the additional pass only makes sense > with oom killing? I'm not sure - that is why i was asking. >
Oh, OK. That final get_page_from_freelist() is allegedly to see if a parallel oom-killing freed some pages - we already know that try_to_free_pages() didn't work.
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