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SubjectRe: [patch 1/7 -mm] oom: filter tasks not sharing the same cpuset
On 02/10/2010 11:32 AM, David Rientjes wrote:
> Tasks that do not share the same set of allowed nodes with the task that
> triggered the oom should not be considered as candidates for oom kill.
>
> Tasks in other cpusets with a disjoint set of mems would be unfairly
> penalized otherwise because of oom conditions elsewhere; an extreme
> example could unfairly kill all other applications on the system if a
> single task in a user's cpuset sets itself to OOM_DISABLE and then uses
> more memory than allowed.
>
> Killing tasks outside of current's cpuset rarely would free memory for
> current anyway.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes<rientjes@google.com>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

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