From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 20:01:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH 10 of 16] stop useless vm trashing while we wait the TIF_MEMDIE task to exit In-Reply-To: <20070609015944.GL9380@v2.random> Message-ID: References: <24250f0be1aa26e5c6e3.1181332988@v2.random> <20070609015944.GL9380@v2.random> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > I'm sorry to inform you that the oom killing in current mainline has > always been a global event not a per-node one, regardless of the fixes > I just posted. Wrong. The oom killling is a local event if we are in a constrained allocation. The allocating task is killed not a random task. That call to kill the allocating task should not set any global flags. -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org