From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail203.messagelabs.com (mail203.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.243]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65EBF6B004A for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:05:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from wpaz29.hot.corp.google.com (wpaz29.hot.corp.google.com [172.24.198.93]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id oAUK5MIn020579 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:05:22 -0800 Received: from pva4 (pva4.prod.google.com [10.241.209.4]) by wpaz29.hot.corp.google.com with ESMTP id oAUK5KvX027367 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:05:21 -0800 Received: by pva4 with SMTP id 4so1229268pva.5 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:05:20 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:05:17 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [PATCH v2]mm/oom-kill: direct hardware access processes should get bonus In-Reply-To: <20101130220107.8328.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Message-ID: References: <20101123154843.7B8D.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <20101130220107.8328.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: "Figo.zhang" , lkml , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds List-ID: On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > > I needed a small bias for CAP_SYS_ADMIN tasks so I chose 3% since it's the > > same proportion used elsewhere in the kernel and works nicely since the > > badness score is now a proportion. > > Why? Is this important than X? > We have always preferred to break ties between applications by not preferring the root task over the user task in the oom killer. If you'd like to remove this bonus for CAP_SYS_ADMIN, please propose a patch. Thanks! -- 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