From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:13:10 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [patch 0/9] oom killer serialization In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20070921021208.e6fec547.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Christoph Lameter , Rik van Riel , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, David Rientjes wrote: > This provides serialization for system-wide, mempolicy-constrained, and > cpuset-constrained OOM kills which was a small subset of Andrea's 24-patch > series posted August 22. > > It replaces the following patches from Andrea: > [PATCH 04 of 24] serialize oom killer > [PATCH 12 of 24] show mem information only when a task is actually being killed > It also replaces [PATCH 19 of 24] cacheline align VM_is_OOM to prevent false sharing since locking isn't globally done with VM_is_OOM anymore. Also, the patch [PATCH 17 of 24] apply the anti deadlock features only to global oom will no longer need to move the global locking mechanism since its now non-existant, but the deadlock feature is still apporpriate in the CONSTRAINT_NONE (i.e. global) case. -- 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