From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail138.messagelabs.com (mail138.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B13C8D0039 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:57:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from m1.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (unknown [10.0.50.71]) by fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id A40B03EE0B3 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 08:57:09 +0900 (JST) Received: from smail (m1 [127.0.0.1]) by outgoing.m1.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85D3C45DE5E for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 08:57:09 +0900 (JST) Received: from s1.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (s1.gw.fujitsu.co.jp [10.0.50.91]) by m1.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C62645DE56 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 08:57:09 +0900 (JST) Received: from s1.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by s1.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BF02E08003 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 08:57:09 +0900 (JST) Received: from ml14.s.css.fujitsu.com (ml14.s.css.fujitsu.com [10.249.87.104]) by s1.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23A551DB8046 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 08:57:09 +0900 (JST) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 08:51:06 +0900 From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] memcg: never OOM when charging huge pages Message-Id: <20110201085106.790e5f65.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <1296482635-13421-4-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> References: <1296482635-13421-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> <1296482635-13421-4-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Johannes Weiner Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp, balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com, minchan.kim@gmail.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:03:55 +0100 Johannes Weiner wrote: > Huge page coverage should obviously have less priority than the > continued execution of a process. > > Never kill a process when charging it a huge page fails. Instead, > give up after the first failed reclaim attempt and fall back to > regular pages. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom policy in Canada: sign http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org