Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:30:19 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -mm] proc: don't take ->siglock for /proc/pid/oom_adj |
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On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> ->siglock is no longer needed to access task->signal, change > oom_adjust_read() and oom_adjust_write() to read/write oom_adj > lockless. > > Yes, this means that "echo 2 >oom_adj" and "echo 1 >oom_adj" > can race and the second write can win, but I hope this is OK. >
Ok, but could you base this on -mm at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ since an additional tunable has been added (oom_score_adj), which does the same thing?
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