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SubjectRe: [PATCH] use oom_killer_disabled in all oom pathes
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On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:17 AM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
<kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:19:22 +0800
> Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:14 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro
>> <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> >> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:57 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro
>> >> <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> >> >> oom_killer_disable should be a global switch, also fit for oom paths
>> >> >> other than __alloc_pages_slowpath
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Here add it to mem_cgroup_handle_oom and pagefault_out_of_memory as well.
>> >> >
>> >> > Can you please explain more? Why should? Now oom_killer_disabled is used
>> >> > only hibernation path. so, Why pagefault and memcg allocation will be happen?
>> >>
>> >> Indeed I'm using it in virtio balloon test, oom killer triggered when
>> >> memory pressure is high.
>> >>
>> >> literally oom_killer_disabled scope should be global, isn't it?
>> >
>> > ok. virtio baloon seems fair usage. if you add new usage of oom_killer_disabled
>> > into the patch description, I'll ack this one.
>>
>> Thanks, then I will resend the virtio balloon patch along with this.
>>
>
> Amount of free memory doesn't affect memory cgroup's OOM because it just works
> against the limit. So, the code for memcg isn't necessary.

Right, thanks for pointing out this, will remove the memcg part
>
>
> Thanks,
> -Kame
>
>



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Regards
dave


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