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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Tim Pepper <lnxninja@us.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, pj@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [patch 3/8] oom: save zonelist pointer for oom killer calls
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:56:07 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709201054470.8626@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.0.9999.0709192235170.22371@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, David Rientjes wrote:

> But yeah, it's cleaner if we change all_unreclaimable to an
> unsigned int flags and convert all current testers of the 
> all_unreclaimable value to use it.  Then we can simply set a bit, 
> ZONE_OOM, to identify such zones.

If we do that then we can also get rid of the atomic_t 
reclaim_in_progress. It is only used by zone reclaim these days.

> But I do agree that checking bits in an unsigned int flags member of 
> struct zone will be better, but I intend to still mimic the behavior of a 
> trylock for serialization.  try_set_zone_oom() will simply be implemented 
> differently.

Good.

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-20 17:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-19 18:24 [patch 0/8] oom killer updates David Rientjes
2007-09-19 18:24 ` [patch 1/8] oom: move prototypes to appropriate header file David Rientjes
2007-09-19 18:24   ` [patch 2/8] oom: move constraints to enum David Rientjes
2007-09-19 18:24     ` [patch 3/8] oom: save zonelist pointer for oom killer calls David Rientjes
2007-09-19 18:24       ` [patch 4/8] oom: serialize out of memory calls David Rientjes
2007-09-19 18:24         ` [patch 5/8] oom: add per-cpuset file oom_kill_asking_task David Rientjes
2007-09-19 18:24           ` [patch 6/8] oom: suppress extraneous stack and memory dump David Rientjes
2007-09-19 18:24             ` [patch 7/8] oom: only kill tasks that share zones with zonelist David Rientjes
2007-09-19 18:24               ` [patch 8/8] oom: do not check cpuset in badness scoring David Rientjes
2007-09-19 19:06                 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 18:57               ` [patch 7/8] oom: only kill tasks that share zones with zonelist Christoph Lameter
2007-09-20  5:50                 ` David Rientjes
2007-09-20 17:58                   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-20 18:37                     ` David Rientjes
2007-09-20 18:44                       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 19:00         ` [patch 4/8] oom: serialize out of memory calls Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 20:30           ` David Rientjes
2007-09-19 19:05       ` [patch 3/8] oom: save zonelist pointer for oom killer calls Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 20:37         ` David Rientjes
2007-09-19 20:54           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 21:20             ` David Rientjes
2007-09-19 23:51               ` Tim Pepper
2007-09-20  5:43                 ` David Rientjes
2007-09-20 17:56                   ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2007-09-19 19:01   ` [patch 1/8] oom: move prototypes to appropriate header file Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 19:49 ` [patch 0/8] oom killer updates Paul Jackson
2007-09-19 20:24   ` David Rientjes

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