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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm/oom_kill.c: don't kill TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks
On Fri, 18 Sep 2015, Kyle Walker wrote:

> I do like the idea of not stalling completely in an oom just because the
> first attempt didn't go so well. Is there any possibility of simply having
> our cake and eating it too? Specifically, omitting TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE
> tasks
> as low-hanging fruit and allowing the oom to continue in the event that the
> first attempt stalls?

TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks should not be sleeping that long and they
*should react* in a reasonable timeframe. There is an alternative API for
those cases that cannot. Typically this is a write that is stalling. If we
kill the process then its pointless to wait on the write to complete. See

https://lwn.net/Articles/288056/

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-task-killable/


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