From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:13:38 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [PATCH 21 of 24] select process to kill for cpusets In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <855dc37d74ab151d7a0c.1187786948@v2.random> <20070912060558.5822cb56.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Andrew Morton , Andrea Arcangeli , linux-mm@kvack.org, Paul Jackson List-ID: On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote: > The reason that we do not scan the tasklist but kill the current process > is also that scanning the tasklist on large systems is very expensive. > Concurrent OOM killer may hold up the system for a long time. So we need > the kill without going throught the tasklist. > And that's why oom_kill_asking_task is added in the final patch of the series. -- 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